| The celebrated and beloved author of the modern classic Fun Home presents Spent(Mariner Books), a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction. In Alison Bechdel’s hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont, is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a citizenry on the brink of civil war. She wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathingly self-critical memoir about her own greed and privilege? Meanwhile, Alison’s first graphic memoir about growing up with her father, a taxidermist who specialized in replicas of Victorian animal displays, has been adapted into a highly successful TV series. It’s a phenomenon that makes Alison, formerly on the cultural margins, the envy of her friend group (recognizable as characters, now middle-aged and living communally in Vermont, from Bechdel’s beloved comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For). As the TV show Death and Taxidermy racks up Emmy after Emmy — and when Alison’s Pauline Bunyanesque partner Holly posts an instructional wood-chopping video that goes viral — Alison’s own envy spirals. Why couldn’t she be the writer for a critically lauded and wildly popular reality TV show… like Queer Eye… showing people how to free themselves from consumer capitalism and live a more ethical life?!! Spent’s rollicking and masterful denouement — making the case for seizing what’s true about life in the world at this moment, before it’s too late — once again proves that “nobody does it better” (New York Times Book Review) than the real Alison Bechdel.Please note: This is a ticketed event. Tickets include admission, as well as one hardcover copy of Spent. Books distributed at event. GET TICKETS |
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