Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama

Resumen del libro

From the best-selling author of Fun Home, Time Magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year, a poignant and hilarious graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her gifted mother always wanted to be

Alison Bechdel's 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 Bechdel's childhood . . . and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter goodnight, forever, when she was seven. Poignantly, hilariously, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers concerning the mother-daughter gulf. It's a richly layered search that leads readers from the fascinating life and work of iconic twentieth-century psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott, to one explosively illuminating Dr. Seuss illustration, to Bechdel's own (serially monogamous) adult love life. And, finally, back to Mother-to a truce, fragile and real-time, that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.

Alison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, New York Times, People, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Village Voice, and San Francisco Chronicle, among others. For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life--queer and otherwise--considered "one of the preeminent oeuvres in the comics genre, period." (Ms.) Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics, 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney's, Entertainment Weekly, Granta, and The New York Times Book Review.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Alison Bechdelx{0026}lt;/B es la autora de tres cómics autobiográficos aclamados internacionalmente, por los lectores y la crítica: x{0026}lt;I Fun Homex{0026}lt;/I (2006), x{0026}lt;I ¿Eres mi madre?x{0026}lt;/I (2012) y x{0026}lt;I El secreto de la fuerza sobrehumanax{0026}lt;/I (2021), todos publicadas en Reservoir Books. El primero de ellos obtuvo un premio Eisner, fue finalista del National Book Critics Circle Award y fue incluido en la lista de los mejores libros del siglo XXI por el diario británico x{0026}lt;I The Guardianx{0026}lt;/I , además de haber tenido una exitosa adaptación al teatro musical (merecedora de cinco premios Tony). Durante veinticinco años (1983-2008), Bechdel publicó las famosas tiras cómicas x{0026}lt;I Unas lesbianas de cuidadox{0026}lt;/I , conocidas en Estados Unidos por su carácter combativo, que la convirtieron en un verdadero icono de la contracultura. Sus historias han aparecido en las publicaciones periódicas x{0026}lt;I Slatex{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I McSweeney'sx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Entertainment Weeklyx{0026}lt;/I , x{0026}lt;I Grantax{0026}lt;/I y x{0026}lt;I The New York Times Book Reviewx{0026}lt;/I . Entre otros galardones en reconocimiento a su carrera artística ha recibido la prestigiosa beca MacArthur y ha sido nombrada Historietista Laureada de Vermont.x{0026}lt;/P