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¿Eres mi madre? by Alison Bechdel

5 reviews

scribblesandsuch's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced
This is stunning and deeply emotive. It seems ridiculous to say, but beware if you have mummy issues, this Will get you. I don't normally like memoirs, this was excellent. I think it will stick with me for a while. Even if the fixation on psychoanalysis wasn't quite my vibe

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loverofeels's review against another edition

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challenging dark reflective slow-paced

4.25

a lot of the psychology stuff went way over my head, but on the whole a very well-crafted, unflinchingly personal memoir. alison bechdel simply does not miss! i recommend this to people who like their graphic novels wordy and dense

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aardwyrm's review against another edition

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challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

Dense, meandering, and full of references to philosophy and psychology, none of which are strikes against but which give this book a very different tone than Fun Home. Most of the allusions happened to click for me, but it might be hard to follow if you weren't a kid who grew up on Dr Seuss's Sleep Book and had just been reading Virginia Woolf.

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anniefwrites's review against another edition

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challenging reflective medium-paced
An interesting deep dive into Bechdel’s relationship with her mother. I think it was a bit too cerebral for me, but I also felt like that was the point; Bechdel attempts to think her way through their relationship rather than feel her way through it, which I think I would have preferred. Still, I always love her art style and raw vulnerability. 

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agavemonster's review against another edition

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challenging emotional funny slow-paced

4.25

a little disjointed/lacking a thesis statement in the way that Fun Home had one. the conversations between the characters vs. the captions on the comic panel were sometimes completely incongruous. dense on the psychoanalytic/Lacanian jargon too, but I consider that to be a plus....... 

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