{"product_id":"spent","title":"Spent","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy:\u003c\/strong\u003e Alison Bechdel\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublished by HarperCollins, 2025\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;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.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt; \u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\"Truthful, rueful and delightful.\"--LA Times\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt; \u0026lt;p\u0026gt;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?\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt; \u0026lt;p\u0026gt;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).\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt; \u0026lt;p\u0026gt;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?!!\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt; \u0026lt;p\u0026gt;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.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47085064159401,"sku":"PHBK-9780063278929","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/14852512-L.jpg?v=1778726858","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/spent","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}