It contained only the first chapter of the book, and so while I cannot give a full review, I can certainly tell you my reaction to that excerpt. Thomas Allen (Canadian distributor for Bechdel’s publisher HMH Books) was kind enough to send me the advanced uncorrected proof of Are You My Mother? to review. While I haven’t had a chance to read it myself, when I heard about her upcoming Are You My Mother? I decided to check it out.
This book was also a finalist in the 2013 Lambda Literary Awards in the category of Lesbian Memoir/Biography.I’ve heard great things about Alison Bechdel’s graphic memoir Fun Home, about her relationship with her father. You can also read the Dykes to Watch Out For series which first gained Bechdel her fame. And, finally, back to Mother - to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. The result is a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott and the novels of Virginia Woolf to Bechdel's own adult love life. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter goodnight, for ever, when she was seven.
A voracious reader, a lover of music (from opera to death metal), a passionate amateur actress, she was also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood.
Now Bechdel has written another graphic memoir, equally touching and funny, about her mother.
Alison Bechdel's Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic, her remarkable graphic memoir about her father, established itself immediately as a classic of the genre, being chosen as Time Magazine's Best Book of the Year for 2006, as well as winning the 2007 Lambda award for Best Lesbian Memoir/Biography.
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