Are You My Mother?

An expansive moving and captivating graphic memoir from the author of Fun Home.Alison Bechdels Fun Home was a literary phenomenon. While Fun Home explored Bechdels 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 Bechdels 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 TimesIts 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 cant help but re-examine your own relationships too. Stylist Review Fun Home andAre You My Mother? are the kind of head-spinningly thoughtful and textured works that make you rejoice in the comic-book form. ―Daily TelegraphI emotionally lost myself in this book… It made me realise that people aren’t always perfect. -- Tavi Gevinson ―ELLEIt’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. -- Emily Reynolds ―StylistAre 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. Its also incredibly funny. And visually stunning. And page-turningly addictive. And heartbreaking. -- Jonathan Safran FoerAs absorbing as it is graced with a deceptive lightness of touch it is clever brilliantly pieced together and utterly unusual. -- Robert Collins ―Sunday Times About the Author Alison Bechdel is the author of two internationally acclaimed graphic memoirs Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama. Fun Home was a New York Times bestseller won an Eisner Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. It was named a Best Book of the 21st Century by the Guardian was adapted to a broadway musical which won five Tony Awards and is currently being adapted for cinema. For twenty-five years she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise - considered one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre. Alison Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics 2011 and has drawn comics for Slate McSweeneys Entertainment Weekly Granta and The New York Times Book Review. In 2014 she was named as one of the recipients of the MacArthur Genius Award.http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/