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2012., Adult, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: GN Bio B391a Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From the best-selling author of the pop culture and literary phenomenon, "Fun Home", a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. 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. Poignantly, 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.
