Feeling like you haven't truly experienced how strange and beautiful the world is unless you see it through Lauren Haldeman's eyes. These beautiful comic diaries from the award-winning poet offer a fresh, humorous, and emotionally resonant perspective on the wonders and quirks of everyday life.

Following the artist and her family—three people, three cats, and a dog—through twelve months of mornings with coffee, late nights with TV, folding laundry, and walks in the woods, Wild That We're Alive invites the reader to marvel at the wonder and oddity of the ordinary.

Depicting herself as a wolf on the page, Lauren embraces the nickname “Momboy”: partly responsible parent and partly beloved mischievous child. In her uniqueness, she is all of us: struggling with worries, marveling at the small things, and ready to throw up her hands and laugh or cry in front of social media, squirrels, politics, and figuring out what to make for dinner.

In these pages, Lauren combines her comic diaries, clever observations, and philosophical musings with a handful of full-page illustrated images to show the changing seasons. Like an average American wearing sweatpants, Lauren depicts herself and those around her with loving self-deprecation—sometimes grouchy, rarely glamorous, but always authentic.

For fans of Lucy Knisley and Julia Wertz, Wild That We're Alive is a debut book from an exciting new voice in comics.