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A review by aardwyrm
Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama by Alison Bechdel
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.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Lesbophobia, Infidelity, Vomit, Suicide, Pregnancy, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, and Death of parent