Are You My Mother?

Alison Bechdel

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

224 pages, $22

From the author of the Eisner Award-winning Fun Home (2006), a best-selling graphic memoir built around Bechdel’s relationship with her father, comes a second tale of filial sleuthery, this time about her mother: a voracious reader, music lover, passionate amateur actor, and a woman unhappily married to a closeted gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel’s childhood. Poignantly and with hilarity, Bechdel embarks on a quest to bridge the mother-daughter gulf.