This one felt a bit fragmentary and forced. You can see it in the text, as the author tries to explain her process of writing the memoir. Perhaps it is the result of the stronger tension between her and her mother, and how she still can't escape the gaze of her mother? Her earlier memoir about her f...
Bechdel's follow-up to her first memoir, Fun Home, is purportedly about her relationship with her mother, but delves deeply into her personal experience with analysis and her research into the subject. There is a lot about Virginia Woolf and a psychologist named Donald Winnicott. At times, it felt d...
"The one thing she needed from me was that I not need anything from her." (p. 260)If you've read it, you know that Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic isn't really much fun, so it should be no surprise that this "comic drama" is comic mostly in the sense of its graphic format, not in terms of hu...
Wow. I am having a hard time believing how much I disliked this book. The two stars are for the drawings, not the text. I found it recursive, uninteresting- no, stultifying, masturbatory and at heart fairly hollow. There are pages and pages of transcriptions from the writings of eminent Freudians, p...
Another perfect book by Alison Bechdel. I think her mother is possibly the most enigmatic woman in the world. I've never read an entire book about someone and ended feeling that I knew less about them than when I started. That isn't quite the case here, but it's close.---I was hoping to get this for...
Immensely rewarding, uncomfortably personal dig in a family's psychology, through layers of analysis, feminism and literary history, ending in a sort of manifesto of memoir.
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