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A review by therainbowshelf
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
tense
slow-paced
4.0
After years of this being on my TBR, my husband discovered it and really connected with it. Bechdel is even more analytical with this book than the one about her dad, bringing in psychology scholarship to examine her life and relationship with mom. In one panel her therapist suggests her childhood diary was a way to distance herself from what was going on, and I felt like that summarized her style with this book as well.
Graphic: Grief
Moderate: Homophobia, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Lesbophobia, and Abandonment
Minor: Suicide and Car accident
Nudity, negative relationship with parent