Boston Globe In this brilliantly told graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning her complex relationship with her mother a voracious reader and passionate amateur actor, a woman whose creative aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel s childhood.Approved third parties also use these tools in connection with our display of ads.
Sorry, there was a problem saving your cookie preferences. Try again. Accept Cookies Customise Cookies. To Add to List, choose from options to the left classa-button-group a-declarative a-spacing-none data-actiona-button-group roleradiogroup. To Add to List, choose from options to the left classa-button-text a-text-left rolebutton. This item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location. Alison Bechdels 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 Bechdels childhood... Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. Seuss illustration, to Bechdels 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. Aln Bechdel Are You My Mother Creator Free Account AlsoCreate a free account Also check our best rated Biography reviews. Representative 21.9 APR (variable). Credit offered by NewDay Ltd, over 18s only, subject to status. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Then you can start reading Kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer - no Kindle device required. And heartbreaking. ![]() Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this; sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. You wont believe it until you read it--and you must --Gloria Steinem This book is not so much the sequel to Alison Bechdels captivating memoir Fun Home, as the maternal yin to its paternal yang. Bravely worrying out the snarled web of missed connections that bedevil her relationship with her remarkable mother from the very start, Bechdel deploys everyone from Virginia Woolf to D.W. Winnicott (the legendary psychoanalytic theorist who comes to serve as her quests benign fairy godfather) to untie the snares of a fraught past. She arrives, at long last, at something almost as shimmering as it is simple: a grace-flecked accommodation and an affirming love.-- Lawrence Weschler, author of Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences and Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative A psychologically complex, ambitious, illuminating successor to the authors graphic-memoir masterpiece. Kirkus Reviews, starred review Bechdels lines and angles are sharper than in Fun Home, and yet her self-image and her views of family members, lovers, and analysts are thorough, clear, and kind. Mothers, adult daughters, literati, memoir fans, and psychology readers are among the many who will find this outing a rousing experience... This may be the most anticipated graphic novel of the year. Booklist, starred review A fiercely honest work about the field of combat that is family. Aln Bechdel Are You My Mother Creator How To Live AnPublishers Weekly, starred review Are You My Mother offers an improbably profound master class in how to live an examined life... More moving and illuminating than Fun Home. Elle The best writers, whether they are creating fiction or nonfiction, are trying to find out what makes people human for better and for worse. A taut, complex book within several books, Bechdels investigation of her relationship with her mother and the work of pioneering psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott offers the most articulate answer youre likely to ingest. Youll feel like Alice climbing your way out the jagged rabbit hole to limbo. Library Journal.
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