The New York Timesbestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel'sFun Homewas 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 Bechdels childhoodand 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. Its 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 Motherto a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.A New York Times, USA Today, Time, Slate, and Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year';As complicated, brainy, inventive and satisfying as the finest prose memoirs.'New York Times Book Review';A work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. Its also incredibly funny. And visually stunning. And page-turningly addictive. And heartbreaking.'Jonathan Safran Foer';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 wont believe it until you read itand you must!'Gloria Steinem
