Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama
Alison Bechdel,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Alison Bechdel,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Format: Textbook
ASIN: 9780618982509
Publish date: 01-05-2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Biography Memoir,
Psychology,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Glbt,
Queer
I seem to be on a not-really-liking anything I read jag these days, so the fact that I bothered to finish should be some recommendation. I love Bechdel's style, and I love the way she draws connections between her reading and her life at key moments. But where[b:Fun Home|38990|Fun Home|Alison Bechde...
As Bechdel and her mother agree late in the text, this is a meta-book. Unlike Fun Home, there's a distance or caution about it, though Bechdel punctuates this with moments of great anguish. Some possible contributors to this distance: --Bechdel's mother is still alive, so the negotiation about the b...