Are You My Mother?
A Comic Drama
Book Summary
Depicts the author's mother as a voracious reader, music lover and passionate amateur actress who quietly suffers as the wife of a closeted gay artist and withdraws from her young daughter, who searches for answers to the separation later in life.
Awards and Recognition
7 weeks on NPR Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller List
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Critics' Lists: Summer 2012
Lit, Illustrated: Five Fantastic Graphic Novels
When it was released in 2006, the sophisticated, deeply personal memoir Fun Home established Alison Bechdel as among the most honest and fearless of contemporary cartoonists. For her follow-up graphic novel, Bechdel switches the focus from her dad to her mom, and the predictably complex and explosive mother/daughter dynamic amplifies nearly every aspect of her work. Using the works — and, in some cases, the actual texts — of Virginia Woolf and child psychologist Donald Winnicott as
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