Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama

An expansive, moving and captivating graphic memoir from the author of Fun Home.Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a literary phenomenon. While Fun Home explored Bechdel's relationship with her father, a closeted homosexual, this memoir is about her mother - a voracious reader, a music lover, a passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood... and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter goodnight, for ever, when she was seven.Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf.'As absorbing as it is graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, it is clever, brilliantly pieced together, and utterly unusual. Sunday Times'It's a beautiful (and beautifully illustrated) look at the complexity and dysfunctionality of family through a unique lens - and frames things in such a way that you can't help but re-examine your own relationships, too.' Stylist Our Booksellers Say... "Although she might not know it, Alison Bechdel is an old friend of mine. I keep coming back to this book, and every time, I discover new ideas (prompting revelations about my own life!) This is memoir at its most meta and most rewarding, full of self-awareness, insight and - of course - love." Emily, Bookseller (Broad Street) View all of Emily's recommendations

ISBN:	9780224093521
Publisher:	Vintage Publishing
Imprint:	Jonathan Cape
Published date:	31 May 2012
DEWEY:	741.5973
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	38530
Number of pages:	286
Weight:	688g
Height:	236mm
Width:	162mm
Spine width:	25mm

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