![]() The way “My mother composed me as I now compose her.” Told through a series of therapy sessions, with the specters of Virginia Woolf and Daniel Winnicott hovering nearby, Bechdel draws out the ways in which growing up with a depressed, narcissistic mother, who had once dreamed of being an artist herself, have colored her world. Now I’ve fallen hard for Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama(Houghton Mifflin), Bechdel’s illustrated analysis of her uneasy relationship with her distant and prickly mom. ![]() ![]() I was lucky enough to lose my graphic-memoir innocence to Alison Bechdel and her 2007 best-selling memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which looked at the life of her father, a high-school English teacher, part-time mortician, and full-time closeted gay man who committed suicide at 44, through the prism of her own sexuality. ![]()
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