Consumida / Spent: A Comic Novel

Los d燰s de cierta historietista llamada Alison Bechdel transcurren, no tan pl塶idamente, en la finca rural de Vermont donde vive junto a su pareja, Holly, a cargo de una granja de cabras pigmeas. Frustrada por un mundo que parece dist鏕ico, al borde de entrar en guerra y en el que el cambio clim嫢ico amenaza con mandarnos al garete, Alison quiere hacer un libro descarnado y honesto que le proporcione a la humanidad las armas para exterminar, de una vez por todas, la avaricia y los privilegios. Quiere acabar con el Capital y abrazar una nueva era con una vida m嫳 彋ica.

Sin embargo, su necesidad de obtener ingresos, sus propias contradicciones, y tambi幯 las de la nutrida comunidad de amistades que la rodean -reconoceremos, d嶰adas despu廥, a varios personajes de Unas lesbianas de cuidado- le plantear嫕 m嫳 de un desaf甐 en su misi鏮. Por no hablar del eclipsante 憖ito de los v獮eos virales que realiza Holly sobre la vida en el campo, o de la llegada a la granja de una veterinaria buenorra, o de la inc鏔oda relaci鏮 que tiene Alison con su hermana, furibunda enemiga de todo lo que suene a woke, o de las jaquecas que le provoca la adaptaci鏮 televisiva de su libro m嫳 exitoso, en la que el respeto por la obra original brilla por su ausencia.

Lograr?salvar el mundo? Conseguir?salvar quiz?su comunidad? Salvar?al menos su relaci鏮 de pareja? Lo que es seguro es que, como asegura el New York Times Book Review, «nadie lo hace mejor que la Alison Bechdel real.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

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.

"Truthful, rueful and delightful."--LA Times

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.