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National Book Award Longlist

Spent: A Comic Novel Children's Books on Non-religious Holidays & Celebrations but who was here beforeThe 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. In Alison Bechdels 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: