ISBN: 0547524366 9780547524368

Category: Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir

Page count: 304

<p><b>The <i>New York Times</i>–bestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of <i>Fun Home</i>, becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.</b><br><br> Alison Bechdel’s <i>Fun Home</i> 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.</p><p>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.</p><p><b>A <i>New York Times</i>, <i>USA Today</i>, <i>Time</i>, <i>Slate</i>, and Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year</b></p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>“As complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs.”—<i>New York Times Book Review</i></b></p><p><b><i> </i></b></p><p><b>“A work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. It's also incredibly funny. And visually stunning. And page-turningly addictive. And heartbreaking<i>.</i>”—Jonathan Safran Foer</b></p><p><b> </b></p><b>“Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers. Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this; sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. You won't believe it until you read it—and you must!”—Gloria Steinem</b>