Starred review: “A psychologically complex, ambitious, illuminating successor to the author’s graphic-memoir masterpiece. This is a sequel to Bechdel’s previous work, Fun Home.Ģ013 Lambda Literary Award Lesbian Memoir or Biography - Nominee And finally, back to Mother – to a truce, fragile and in real time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel’s own (serially monogamous) adult love life. 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. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning this mother-daughter gulf. 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. Now, a second thrilling tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop-culture and literary phenomenon.
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