Are you my mother? : a comic drama
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- ISBN: 0618982507
- ISBN: 9780618982509
- Physical Description 286 pages : color illustrations
- Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
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General Note: | 2013 finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards for lesbian memoir/biography |
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 25.95 |
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Are You My Mother? : A Comic Drama
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Are You My Mother? : A Comic Drama
From the best-selling author of Fun Home , Time magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. 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.