![]() ![]() "In Are You My Mother?, Alison Bechdel poses an infinity of thought-provoking questions about women, literature, feminism, family bonds, psychology and the complicated relationship between therapist and patient.The book is a page turner, thanks in part to Bechdel's lovely and subtle illustrations. And, finally, back to Mother - to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. 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. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel’s childhood. ![]() Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. From the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama is a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.Ī New York Times, USA Today, and Time Best Book of the YearĪlison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. ![]()
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