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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 magazineβs No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdelβs 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 Bechdelβs own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Motherβto a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.
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