Spent: A Comic Novel Jake Naughton Whether portraying the keeper of

Whether portraying the keeper of a Union soldiers' cemetery in the defeated South

the improbable old debauchee mysteriously caught between the Nazis and the Communists

and maturity

Through time and place

the speaker bleeds their histories together with the slow erosion of nostalgia

Spent: A Comic Novel Jake Naughton Whether portraying the keeper ofThe 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 work of sharp literary humor, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont, is existentially irked by a