Alison Bechdel
A graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.,Alison Bechdelâ€™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 Bechdelâ€™s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Motherâ€”to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.
Sequential Art,Graphic Novels,Autobiography,Memoir,Sequential Art,Comics,Nonfiction,LGBT,GLBT,Queer,Biography,Graphic Novels Comics,Psychology,Biography Memoir
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