From her pygmy goat farm in Vermont, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathing memoir about her own greed and privilege? But how can she just sit around writing a book when the world is hanging on a thread?
In this hilariously skewering comic novel, Alison is existentially pained by a climate-challenged world and a country on the brink of civil war. Her first graphic memoir about growing up with her taxidermist father has been adapted into a highly successful TV series, Death and Taxidermy. Its a phenomenon that makes Alison, formerly on the cultural margins, the envy of her friend group. As the TV show racks up Emmy after Emmy, Alisons own envy spirals. Surely writing her own wildly popular reality TV series wouldnt be that hard? One that shows people how to free themselves from consumer capitalism and live a more ethical life?!

Format: Hardcover
Published: UK, 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Pages: 272
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1787335399
ISBN 13: 9781787335394