So compelling I can't even really talk about it yet.This was a very meta-memoir, as self-defined by the author and her mother in the end. I'm sure this book was cathartic for her to write, but it was not the least bit enjoyable to read.I love the title of this book. Memories from childhood, both overtly happy and appearing quite sad.
Holes in walls, ceilings, clothing, tiles, just about everything and anything. That's really the only compliment I can give it.
Each chapter opens with a dream sequence.
A Comic Drama borrows its title from the classic P.D. It's not for me; I know that now. Perhaps my own psychoanalysis would be interesting to me (though I doubt it)- someone else's surely is not. The nonfiction graphic novel, Are You My Mother, by Alison Bechdel, is a work of experimental nonfiction, which utilizes the vehicle of the graphic novel to tell the story. I'm legitimately curious because I suspeIf you don't have a hard-on for psychoanalysis, this meta-book is not for you.
This, her mom book, bears some resemblance to Fun Home, her dad book, in that it is in part an autobiography, and very very carefully layered, entertwining its story of her mother with Bechdel's reading of other texts. Clearly, analysis has formulated her way of thinking, and it was actually a little frightening to see her frame absolutely everything with the ideas of a few key thinkers - Freud, Winnicott, and Alice Miller.
It is like nothing so much as a densely contrapuntal twelve-tone composition. There are dreams to be analyzed, comparison of their preferred authors ( Woolf for Alison, Plath for her mother). A new chlorine-resistant swimsuit?
I found myself more curious about her relationship with her father, which seemed traumatic and was mentioned quite a few times but not explored, but reviews of this book indicate that Alison wrote out that relationship in an earlier book.Very introspective, even for a memoir. What more revelations couldI was a big fan of Alison Bechdel’s “Fun Home” when it came out 6 years ago, it was an interesting and insightful memoir about her growing up in a funeral home with a father who was secretly homosexual and would later commit suicide, and then discovering that she was gay as well.
- Kirkus Reviews
The two stars are for the drawings, not the text. The novel is a companion-piece of work to Fun Home her earlier work which deals with her relationship with her father.
Copyright 2020 by BookRags, Inc. It is a formal tour de force.To me, this book resembles the kind of modernism that forms, in the persona of Virginia Woolf, one of its central themes. Le Guin's words could stand as an epigraph to this diptych: Glad I stopped a few pages in and read Fun Home first - that not only provided context, but made this sequel a lot more palatable. And even tho' I was processing throughout and after each section, I still feel that I need another five reads to get all of what Bechdel is saying here.
I found it recursive, uninteresting- no, stultifying, masturbatory and at heart fairly hollow. Reread 3/10/20: Opinion is still the same as below. The nonfiction graphic novel, Are You My Mother, by Alison Bechdel, is a work of experimental nonfiction, which utilizes the vehicle of the graphic novel to tell the story.
But Bechdel doesn't stoop to that manipulation, that seduction; her strength is that she makes it clear she is who she is and that is an interesting risk for any author to take, especially if who you are is deeply flawed in some ways. (To be fair: To top "Fun Home"? Alison transcribes her phone conversations with Helen to capture her mother’s voice.
It took me a while to really get into this one: it's much more slippery than It took me a while to really get into this one: it's much more slippery than Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist.
Chapter 4 Summary: “Mind” In 2002, Alison dreams of her college dorm room. Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home was a pop culture and literary phenomenon. "Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. It was also disjointed, confusing, and repetitive at times. Bechdel dreams of mirrors. And there are contemporaneous conversations, as mothThis has been a very interesting read, different from Fun Home, in my recollection, by Bechdel' s attempt to understand and relate understanding of her mother and their complex relationship through her self-education in (and personal experience of) psychoanalysis. Although I'm not an artist, I'm guessing that the drawings are highly skilled, and I did finish the book with a profound empathy for both Bechdel and her mother in their brave survival of the traumatic past, but I think this one won't be treasured with the rest of my Bechdel collection.Sat up reading this from 11:30 at night until 1:40 in the morning. You won’t like her, but you will love her. I felt like I was reading this slowly - although clearly not, as I finished in two-three days or so. I could relate to this book, which for me, because I'm a closet narcissist or something is terribly important. It's not for me; I know that now. The baby bird hatches.
So when it hit the mark, it hit hard. In many ways, it is a memoir of the author's relationship with her mother. Honestly, the ending pardons everything. Alison traces her memories of and relationship with her mother alongside threads of dream interpretation, therapy and psychoanalysis, and the writings of Virginia Woolf.
(To be fair: To top "Fun Home"?
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