Are You My Mother?Are You My Mother?
a Comic Drama
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Book, 2013
Current format, Book, 2013, First Mariner Books edition., Available .Book, 2013
Current format, Book, 2013, First Mariner Books edition., Available . Offered in 0 more formatsAlison 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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