Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama

An interesting companion to Alison Bechdel's Fun Home. It has the same deeply emotional and intellectual voice as Fun Home. However, the tone is very different. For one it focuses more on her more recent adult life including the writing of Fun Home and Are You My Mother so it is much more meta and comes to a less solid ending as her relationship with her mother is not over. Just like fun home Are You My Mother is filled with literary allusions however unlike fun home the main thrust of the book in understanding her book through the writings of psychoanalysts so it has a very different kind of understanding of relationships. It worked a little bit of an introduction to these topics and an interesting more personally perspective of them. I might recommend it as to someone newly interested in psychoanalysis. I think overall It is an amazing intricate book however I understand why it is less popular than fun home. It is less focused, and more circular but that just seems to be the nature of the true story. I still highly recommend it to anybody who enjoyed fun home or just a good book about family relationships