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Also by Alison Bechdel:

Are You My Mother?, May 2012
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Fun Home, June 2007
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ARE YOU MY MOTHER?
By: Alison Bechdel

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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All Things Considered - May 27, 2012