'The funniest most satirical cartoon she has ever written - as well as perhaps the most
prescient' OBSERVER 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.
