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    612-822-4611

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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

Bechdel, Alison

Paperback

Biographies GeneralChild PsychologyGeneral Graphic Novels

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 0544002237
ISBN13: 9780544002234
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Apr 2 2013
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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.

A New York Times, USA Today, and Time Best Book of the Year

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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