"Are You My Mother?"

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Alison Bechdel)

This is a book where I felt the author got more out of getting it down on paper than I did reading the finished product. Instead of being about the author's mother, the book ends up being about Bechdel's struggles to write the book in the first place (both of her therapists appear on more pages than her mother does). This book was probably pretty cathartic to get finished, but unfortunately her mother becomes a supporting character in her own book, and I felt like most of the child psychology and dream analysis that replaces her as the main focus went right over my head. I wasn't ever that bored, but this is pretty tough to recommend; get it out of your local library.

Grade: C+