Are you my mother?

Description:

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.

subjects: Cartoonists,  Comic books, strips,  Amerikanisches Englisch,  Graphic novels,  Mother-Child Relations,  Roman,  Comic,  NEW LIST 20120630,  Psychoanalysis,  Biography,  Cartoons as Topic,  Comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, general,  Authors, biography,  Mothers and daughters,  Lesbians, biography,  nyt:hardcover-graphic-books=2012-05-20,  New York Times bestseller,  nyt:paperback-graphic-books=2013-05-26,  LGBTQ graphic novels,  LGBTQ humor,  LGBTQ biography and memoir,  collection:judy_grahn_award=winner,  Childhood and youth,  Lesbians,  Cartoons,  Personal Narratives

People: Alison Bechdel (1960-)

Places: United States