From the brilliant author of Fun Home comes Are you my Mother?  hmhbooks: TODAY TODAY TODAY! There’s no question, ARE YOU MY MOTHER? by Alison Bechdel is on sale and available to-day. Her tour kicks off tonight in NYC, and continues and continues and continues.  Alison 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 goodnight, 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 iconic 20th-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 Read an excerpt. See the tour schedule. 

From the brilliant author of Fun Home comes Are you my Mother? 

hmhbooks:

TODAY TODAY TODAY! There’s no question, ARE YOU MY MOTHER? by Alison Bechdel is on sale and available to-day. Her tour kicks off tonight in NYC, and continues and continues and continues. 

Alison 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 goodnight, 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 iconic 20th-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

Read an excerpt. See the tour schedule. 

May. 1 2012
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