Are You My Mother?

A Comic Drama

Alison Bechdel

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel’s childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It’s a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother–to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.

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Details

ISBN	9780618982509
Genre	Autobiography/Biography; Graphic Novel
Copyright Date	2012
Publication Date	01-May-12
Publisher	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format	Hardcover
No. of Pages	224
Notes	Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Lesbian Memoir/Biography
Language	English
Rating	Good
Paper Type	Electronic Format Available
Subject	Art
BookID	631