Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel

15 reviews

koreanlinda's review

I had a hard time processing information on pages. Alison Bechdel cramps each page with stories, information, and images. It's dense, much denser than most graphic novels. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent

lucylou's review

reflective slow-paced

3.0

Bechdel’s contentious relationship with her mother  made me feel sad and seen, but the amount of psychoanalysis really made this book drag. I found my eyes glazing over a few times with the amount of quotes and references to psychoanalyst Wincott. Loved all the references to Virginia Woolf!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Panic attacks/disorders, Vomit, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

Moderate: Death of parent, Cancer, Suicide, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Grief

Minor: Infidelity

cordiaelly's review

emotional reflective slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide

saucy_bookdragon's review

dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

A stream of conscious meandering psychoanalysis of Bechdel that mostly focuses on her relationship with her mother and healing. I found it hit a little too close to home for me and my own complicated relationship with my mother and mental health. Though I wish there was more commentary on the psychologist she references rather than just inserting quotes from them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Homophobia, Vomit, Misogyny, and Suicide

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.0

After years of this being on my TBR, my husband discovered it and really connected with it. Bechdel is even more analytical with this book than the one about her dad, bringing in psychology scholarship to examine her life and relationship with mom. In one panel her therapist suggests her childhood diary was a way to distance herself from what was going on, and I felt like that summarized her style with this book as well.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief

Moderate: Abandonment, Lesbophobia, Sexual content, Homophobia, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide and Car accident

Nudity, negative relationship with parent

loverofeels's review

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

4.25

a lot of the psychology stuff went way over my head, but on the whole a very well-crafted, unflinchingly personal memoir. alison bechdel simply does not miss! i recommend this to people who like their graphic novels wordy and dense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Domestic abuse and Toxic relationship

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent

isabelamelung's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Suicide

aardwyrm's review

challenging emotional reflective slow-paced

4.0

Dense, meandering, and full of references to philosophy and psychology, none of which are strikes against but which give this book a very different tone than Fun Home. Most of the allusions happened to click for me, but it might be hard to follow if you weren't a kid who grew up on Dr Seuss's Sleep Book and had just been reading Virginia Woolf.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Vomit, Suicide, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent

garynoplastie's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Suicide, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Homophobia

aishaalthani's review

emotional funny lighthearted fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Mental illness, Death of parent, and Death