Are You My Mother?
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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.
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