Are You My Mother?
by Alison Bechdel
Buy on AmazonAre You My Mother?: A Comic Drama is a 2012 graphic memoir written and illustrated by Alison Bechdel, about her relationship with her mother. The book is a companion piece to her earlier work Fun Home, which deals with her relationship with her father. The book interweaves memoir with psychoanalysis and exploration of various literary works, particularly Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse.
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"I’m currently in the middle of “Are You My Mother?” by the cartoonist Alison Bechdel. It’s much more meta and nonlinear than I had expected, and totally engrossing."
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"Alison Bechdel's graphic novel Are You My Mother? is replete with more insight into the human psyche than most books in the psychology section of the bookstore."
By the Book: Maria Popova · nytimes.com