The celebrated and beloved New York Times bestselling author of the modern classic Fun Home presents 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 showÉlike 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. (W/A/CA) Alison Bechdel