Harvard Book Store welcomes beloved
 New York Times 
bestselling author 
Alison Bechdel
—author of
 Fun Home
, which was a 
Time
 magazine #1 Book of the Year graphic memoir and was adapted into a Tony Award–winning musical—to celebrate the release of her new comic novel
 Spent
, a laugh-out-loud, brilliant, and passionately political work of autofiction. 
Ticketing
Tickets include admission for one and one hardcover copy of 
Spent 
pre-signed by the author.
About 
Spent 
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.
Bio
Alison Bechdel’s
 cult following for her early comic strip 
Dykes to Watch Out For 
expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the
 New York Times
 bestselling and
 Time
 magazine #1 Book of the Year graphic memoir 
Fun Home
, adapted into a Tony Award–winning musical, and 
Are You My Mother?
 Most recently,
 The Secret to Superman Strength 
was named a 
New York Times 
Best Graphic Novel of 2021. Bechdel has been named a MacArthur Fellow, among many other honors.
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