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
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9780224093521Number of pages: 304Weight: 691 gDimensions: 235 x 160 x 25 mm
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Fun Home and Are You My Mother are the kind of head-spinningly thoughtful and textured works that make you rejoice in the comic-book form.I emotionally lost myself in this book... It made me realise that people aren't always perfect.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.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. It's also incredibly funny. And visually stunning. And page-turningly addictive. And heartbreaking.As absorbing as it is graced with a deceptive lightness of touch,it is clever,brilliantly pieced together,and utterly unusual.
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