Are You My Mother?: A Psychologically Complex Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel

On April 28, 2012, in Biographies & Memoirs, Book Reviews, Comics & Graphic Novels, by Editor

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home 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.