Are You My Mother?

A complex, fascinating and intellectually rich memoir.

Larushka Ivan-Zadek, Metro

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

Lively, fresh and expressive…humane, complex and beautiful.

Anna Carey, Irish Times

I emotionally lost myself in this book… It made me realise that people aren’t always perfect.

Tavi Gevinson, ELLE

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

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

Don’t let the cartoons fool you, this is an exciting and intelligent book and, at many points, highly moving. It doesn’t just tell Alison’s story, Are You My Mother? allows to you to think about your own.

Emerald Street

Throughout, there are magnificent feats of connectivity, startlingly complex internal monologues that unfold with perfect simplicity… I haven’t encountered a book about being an artist, or about the punishing entanglements of mothers and daughters, as engaging, profound or original as this one in a long time.

Rev’d Katie Roiphe, Scotsman

Very original and arresting.

Cressida Connelly, Spectator

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

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

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

Find everything this author has written. Every jot she makes on the paper enriches the baroque, painful, exhilarating story she has to tell.

Candia McWilliam, Scotsman

It’s first and foremost funny, using graphical and verbal tricks to express the psychological dramas of an American household.

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