are you my mother a comic drama by alison bechdel

You won't believe it until you read it-and you must!' -Gloria Steinem Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. 'Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers.

'- Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Everything is Illuminated ' Are You My Mother is a work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. And, finally, back to Mother ?-? to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. 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. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. 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. ICLE (International Center for Leadership in Education)Ĭustomer Service & Technical Support Portalįrom 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. Into Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, 8-12 And, finally, back to Mother-to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.Science & Engineering Leveled Readers, K-5 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.Īlison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No.

Are you my mother a comic drama by alison bechdel