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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.
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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 NarrativesPeople
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Are you my mother?: a comic drama
2012, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
2012, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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