Spent: A Comic Novel

Spent: A Comic NovelThe 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 Bechdels 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:

and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses—but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl

she and Brock forge a real connection

her life is forever changed

Identical twins Beau and Duane Winston might share the same devastatingly handsome face

that’s what he kept telling himself

co-parenting their two kids and running a thriving business together

Their annual respite from the world

a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow

and time’s unstoppable march

Publishers Weekly-1/19/2009:The third book in this genre-busting series is certain to enlarge Kinney’s presence on the bestseller lists

"Self-Portrait" reprints an interview she did in 1956 with The Paris Review

After enduring unspeakable horrors as a child at the hands of Adarlanian soldiers