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From the best-selling author of Fun Home Time magazines No Book of the Year a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to beAlison Bechdels Fun Home was 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 childhood and 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 Bechdels 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.
About the Author
ALISON BECHDEL has been a careful archivist of her own life and kept a journal since she was ten. Since 1983 she has been chronicling the lives of various characters in the fictionalized "Dykes to Watch Out For" strip, "one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period" (Ms.) . The strip is syndicated in 50 alternative newspapers, translated into multiple languages, and collected into a book series with a quarter of a million copies in print. Utne magazine has listed DTWOF as "one of the greatest hits of the twentieth century."
