Spent

Author:	Bechdel, Alison
Binding:	Hardcover
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ISBN:	9780063453265
Publisher:	Mariner Books
Language:	English
Page Count:	857
Publication Date:	5/1/2025
Size:	9.25" l x 6.63" w x 1.13"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
Comics & Graphic Novels	Literary

Written by the celebrated, bestselling graphic memoirist Alison Bechdel, author of the modern classic Fun Home.

In Spent: A Comic Novel, Alison Bechdel returns with a satirical, deeply self-aware work of autofiction. The story follows a cartoonist — a stand-in for Bechdel herself — who runs a pygmy-goat sanctuary in rural Vermont, while the climate-challenged world and a society on the edge of civil breakdown swirl around her.

As her first graphic memoir (about growing up with her taxidermist father) is adapted into a wildly successful TV show, she becomes consumed by envy and existential angst. The novel becomes her attempt to critique consumer capitalism and privilege — railing against society’s injustices, while simultaneously examining her own complicity, guilt, and longing to make a meaningful, ethical life. It is described as “laugh-out-loud,” “brilliant,” and “passionately political.”

“Truthful, rueful and delightful.” — Los Angeles Times