Are You My Mother?
A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel
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 |
