Are You My Mother?

Never having seen his mother, a baby bird makes humorous mistakes trying to find her. (more)

Never having seen his mother, a baby bird makes humorous mistakes trying to find her. (less)

"A baby bird falls out of its nest and goes in search of his mother"-- (more)

"A baby bird falls out of its nest and goes in search of his mother"-- (less)

A little bird asks animals, planes, and boats, "Are you my mother?" until he finds his own mother. (more)

A little bird asks animals, planes, and boats, "Are you my mother?" until he finds his own mother. (less)

The New York Times-bestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, becoming the artist her mother w... (more)

The New York Times-bestselling graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home, becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. 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 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. (less)