{"product_id":"are-you-my-mother-a-comic-drama-9780544002234","title":"Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama","description":"From the New York Times bestselling author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama is a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA New York Times, USA Today, and Time Best Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlison 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 good night, forever, when she was seven. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoignantly, 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 the 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Bechdel\u003c\/b\u003e's cult following for her early comic strip \u003ci\u003eDykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/i\u003e expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the best-selling graphic memoir \u003ci\u003eFun Home\u003c\/i\u003e, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and \u003ci\u003eAre You My Mother?\u003c\/i\u003e Bechdel has been named a MacArthur Fellow and Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, among many other honors. Her new memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret to Superman Strength, \u003c\/i\u003eis forthcoming in 2021.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50589822124306,"sku":"9780544002234","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8572245c-2468-43e6-b318-80d3b5f4f813.jpg?v=1732075755","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/are-you-my-mother-a-comic-drama-9780544002234","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}