Title: Are you my mother?
Description: From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.

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. 

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.
Subjects: Cartoonists, Comic books, strips, Amerikanisches Englisch, Graphic novels, Mother-Child Relations, Roman, Comic, NEW LIST 20120630, Psychoanalysis, Biography, Cartoons as Topic, Comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, general, Authors, biography, Mothers and daughters, Lesbians, biography, nyt:hardcover-graphic-books=2012-05-20, New York Times bestseller, nyt:paperback-graphic-books=2013-05-26, LGBTQ graphic novels, LGBTQ humor, LGBTQ biography and memoir, collection:judy_grahn_award=winner, Childhood and youth, Lesbians, Cartoons, Personal Narratives
Places: United States
People: Alison Bechdel (1960-)