From the bestselling author of the New York Times, Fun Home, comes Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama, a brilliantly told graphic memoir about Alison Bechdel, who becomes the artist her mother wanted to be.

A Book of the Year according to the New York Times, USA Today, and Time.

Alison Bechdel's Fun Home was a phenomenon in pop culture and literature. Now comes a second exciting story about the detective work within her family, this time focusing on her mother: a passionate reader, music lover, and dedicated amateur actress. Additionally, a woman unhappily married to a gay man, whose artistic ambitions smolder in the background during Bechdel's childhood, and who has stopped kissing or touching her daughter goodnight at the age of seven.

Touching and humorous, Bechdel embarks on a quest for answers about the rift between mother and daughter. It is a richly layered search that takes readers from the fascinating life and work of the iconic 20th-century psychoanalyst, Donald Winnicott, through an explosively illuminating illustration of Dr. Seuss, to Bechdel's own (serially monogamous) love life as an adult. And ultimately back to her mother – to a fragile and real truce that will move and astonish all adult children of gifted mothers.