Are You My Mother?

Fun Home and Are You My Mother? are the kind of head-spinningly thoughtful and textured works that make you rejoice in the comic-book form. * Daily Telegraph *
I emotionally lost myself in this book… It made me realise that people aren’t always perfect. -- Tavi Gevinson * ELLE *
It’s a beautiful (and beautifully illustrated) look at the complexity and dysfunctionality of family through a unique lens – and frames things in such a way that you can’t help but re-examine your own relationships, too. -- Emily Reynolds * Stylist *
Are You My Mother? is a work of the most humane kind of genius, bravely going right to the heart of things: why we are who we are. It's also incredibly funny. And visually stunning. And page-turningly addictive. And heartbreaking. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
As absorbing as it is graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, it is clever, brilliantly pieced together, and utterly unusual. -- Robert Collins * Sunday Times *
One of the chief pleasures of this book is how the words and pictures collaborate to gesture at a territory that neither might reach alone. -- Tim Martin * Telegraph *
Many of us are living out the unlived lives of our mothers. Alison Bechdel has written a graphic novel about this, sort of like a comic book by Virginia Woolf. You won't believe it until you read it - and you must! -- Gloria Steinem
Pure bliss. -- Lisa Appiganesi * Observer *
Bechdel’s engaging, original graphic memoir explores her troubled relationship with her distant mother. * New York Times *
A complex, fascinating and intellectually rich memoir. -- Larushka Ivan-Zadek * Metro *