![]() And, finally, back to Mother-to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. Now Bechdel has written another memoir, equally rich and funny, about her mother. 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. Alison Bechdels 'Fun Home', her remarkable graphic memoir about her father, established itself immediately as a classic of the genre, being chosen as 'Time' Magazines Best Book of the Year for 2006, while 'The Times' called it a profound and important book. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when she was seven. Also a woman, unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. ![]() ![]() 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.Īlison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time magazine’s No. ![]()
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