“This book is not so much the sequel to Alison Bechdel’s captivating memoir Fun Home as the maternal yin to its paternal yang. You won't believe it until you read it-and you must!”-Gloria Steinem Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this, sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. “Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. And, finally, back to Mother-to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. 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. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.Īlison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No.
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