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A Comic Drama
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
May 2012
On Sale: May 1, 2012
304 pages ISBN: 0618982507 EAN: 9780618982509 Kindle: B005LVR75Y Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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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