Description
In this deeply introspective graphic memoir, a daughter revisits her complicated relationship with her emotionally distant mother, tracing its influence from childhood through adulthood and the painstaking creation of the book itself. Dreams, family history, therapy, and literary analysis—especially of Virginia Woolf—become lenses through which she explores memory, identity, intimacy, and the silences that shape a family. Drawing on the theories of psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, the narrative moves fluidly across time as it searches for understanding without reducing either mother or daughter to easy answers. With precise, expressive artwork and candid intellectual warmth, the memoir transforms a personal investigation into a nuanced meditation on love, creativity, and the elusive work of knowing another person.
Available Editions
paperback
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published May 1, 2012
301 pages
ISBN: 9780547524368
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Details
First Published
2012
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Are You My Mother? by Alison Bechdel.