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An expansive, moving and captivating graphic memoir from ´one of the finest cartoonists at work today´.

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Alison Bechdel´s Fun Home was a literary phenomenon: ´an extraordinarily intimate account of family secrets that manages to be shocking, unsettling and life-affirming at the same time´, as Sarah Walters wrote in the Guardian. The Times said it was ´incontestibly the graphic book of the year´, while the Observer recently chose it as one of the ten best graphic novels ever published.

While Fun Home explored Bechdel´s relationship with her father, a closeted homsexual, this new memoir is about her mother - a voracious reader, a music lover, a passionate amateur actor. Also a woman, unhappily married to a gay man, whose artistic aspirations simmered under the surface of Bechdel´s childhood... and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter goodnight, for ever, 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 psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott to one explosively illuminating Dr Seuss illustration, to Bechdel´s own (serially monogamous) 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.

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"Fun Home and Are You My Mother? are the kind of head-spinningly thoughtful and textured works that make you rejoice in the comic-book form." Daily Telegraph

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Alison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, which was named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, and People among others. For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise - considered ´one of the pre-eminent oeuvres in the comics genre.´ Alison Bechdel is guest editor of Best American Comics, 2011, and has drawn comics for Slate, McSweeney´s, Entertainment Weekly, Granta, and the New York Times Book Review.

http://dykestowatchoutfor.com/

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