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'The funniest, most satirical cartoon she has ever written - as well as, perhaps, the most prescient' OBSERVER

"Very funny and self-hating in a good way" ZADIE SMITH

From her pygmy goat farm in Vermont, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral…

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