This may be the most anticipated graphic novel of the year." - Booklist, starred review Mothers, adult daughters, literati, memoir fans, and psychology readers are among the many who will find this outing a rousing experience. " lines and angles are sharper than in Fun Home, and yet her self-image and her views of family members, lovers, and analysts are thorough, clear, and kind. "A psychologically complex, ambitious, illuminating successor to the author's graphic-memoir masterpiece." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review She arrives, at long last, at something almost as shimmering as it is simple: a grace-flecked accommodation and an affirming love."- Lawrence Weschler, author of Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences and Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative Winnicott (the legendary psychoanalytic theorist who comes to serve as her quest's benign fairy godfather) to untie the snares of a fraught past. Bravely worrying out the snarled web of missed connections that bedevil her relationship with her remarkable mother from the very start, Bechdel deploys everyone from Virginia Woolf to D.W.
"This book is not so much the sequel to Alison Bechdel's captivating memoir Fun Home, as the maternal yin to its paternal yang. You won't believe it until you read it-and you must!" -Gloria Steinem Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. "Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers. "- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Everything is Illuminated
" Are You My Mother is a work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. 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. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.Īlison Bechdel's Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine's No.
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