"Truthful, rueful and delightful." -- LA Times "Spent's mix of witty self-deprecation and queer countercultural sex romp is gleefully entertaining." -- The New Yorker "Hilariously honest.Spent succeeds at skewering the absurdities and inconsistencies of [Bechdel's] life as a progressive artist with a diverse group of friends." -- San Francisco Chronicle "Sharp, funny and beautifully drawn." -- People Magazine "Spent is the best kind of autofiction, braiding together strands of the author's career into a brilliant new creation. A sly social satire and a rollicking good time." -- Boston Globe "Spent is the best kind of autofiction, braiding together strands of the author's career into a brilliant new creation.

A sly social satire and a rollicking good time." -- New York Times "There's something charming and funny on practically every page of Spent." -- Minnesota Star Tribune "In teasing herself and her friends, Bechdel finds a new way to have fun with both." -- Washington Post "There's a real joy to seeing [Dykes to Watch Out For] characters return, their shapes a little baggier, their hair greyer, but their spirits the same." -- The Guardian "How, for all these years, in a remote corner of Vermont and mostly stuck in her own head has [Alison Bechdel] figured out just what to say to us?" -- Atlantic Magazine "[S]elf-deprecating and delightful . Bechdel takes a gentle approach toward her well-meaning characters, but wields a razor-sharp scalpel when it comes to the indignities of modern life. For Bechdel's fans, it's a dream to see her skewer fame with such hilarious precision." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Thoroughly wonderful .

Alison and her friends are beautiful and ridiculous and ridiculously beautiful, and Bechdel is such a master of her craft that it might take a little while to appreciate what she does here. Bechdel is incisive, tender, and funny--often at the same time." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review).