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Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel

7 reviews

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

readinginlesbian's review against another edition

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit

Minor: Cancer

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

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

anniefwrites's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

An interesting deep dive into Bechdel’s relationship with her mother. I think it was a bit too cerebral for me, but I also felt like that was the point; Bechdel attempts to think her way through their relationship rather than feel her way through it, which I think I would have preferred. Still, I always love her art style and raw vulnerability. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Infidelity

Moderate: Child abuse, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Ableism, Cancer, and Vomit

greydaze's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, Homophobia, and Vomit

agavemonster's review

challenging emotional funny slow-paced

4.25

a little disjointed/lacking a thesis statement in the way that Fun Home had one. the conversations between the characters vs. the captions on the comic panel were sometimes completely incongruous. dense on the psychoanalytic/Lacanian jargon too, but I consider that to be a plus....... 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Vomit, Infidelity, and Domestic abuse