A review by mcsuggett
Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel

challenging emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

This graphic novel was part memoir and part psychology course. This is a book I could definitely reread because I'm sure that there are details I didn't pick up on the first time, and there's plenty more to understand in the psychoanalysis parts. There's a lot of jargon that can be tricky to tread through. The story also jumps back and forth a lot, going from present to past to even farther past to therapy sessions about the present to quotes from psychoanalysts to quotes from Virginia Woolf. I would like to read this again after reading To The Lighthouse.
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