'The funniest most satirical cartoon she has ever written - as well as perhaps the most
prescient' OBSERVER "Very funny and self-hating in a good way" ZADIE SMITH From her pygmy
goat farm in Vermont a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel wonders: Can she pull humanity out of
its death spiral by writing a scathing memoir about her own greed and privilege? But how can
she just sit around writing a book when the world is hanging on a thread? In this hilariously
skewering comic novel Alison is existentially pained by a climate-challenged world and a
country on the brink of civil war. Her first graphic memoir about growing up with her
taxidermist father has been adapted into a highly successful TV series Death and Taxidermy .
It's a phenomenon that makes Alison formerly on the cultural margins the envy of her friend
group. As the TV show racks up Emmy after Emmy Alison's own envy spirals. Surely writing her
own wildly popular reality TV series wouldn't be that hard? One that shows people how to free
themselves from consumer capitalism and live a more ethical life?! In Spent the celebrated
bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents a laugh-out-loud and passionately
political work of autofiction and once again proves that "nobody does it better" (New York
Times) than the real Alison Bechdel.
