Are you my mother? - A Comic Drama

Alison Bechdel

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

2012

304 páginas

10h 8m

ISBN-13: 9780618982509

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.

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Uma autobiografia ensaística

Após escrutinar o relacionamento com o pai e buscar compreendê-lo no quadrinho Fun Home, Alison Bechdel empreende, em Are you my mother, uma investigação acerca de sua relação com a mãe e sobre os efeitos que esse relacionamento tenso e um tanto distante tiveram no seu próprio desenvolvimento. Um mergulho sensível na própria psique, com direito a estudos de textos de psicólogos e psiquiatras; uma investigação dolorosa sobre a própria história e os próprios sentimentos. Denso, esteticamente lindo e profundamente humano.