This is an extraordinary, laugh-out-loud chronicle of the conundrums we all grapple with as we seek our true place in the world. In this, her third graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel has written a deeply layered, personal story about selfhood, self-sabotage, mortality, addiction, bliss, wonder, and the concerns of a generation. And in a changing, sometimes overwhelming world, are "cantaloupe-sized guns" all a person needs? Maybe the all-important secret is not where she expected to find it. "Oh, to be self-sufficient! Hard as a rock! An island!"But as she gets older, her body isn't getting any stronger. Patricia Lockwood, Hermione Lee, Alison Bechdel, Stella McNichol. Skiing, running, karate, cycling, yoga, weight lifting - you name it, she's tried it. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse, explored the inner lives. She has looked for it in her favourite books, the lives of her heroes, celibacy, polyamory, activism, therapy, and most obsessively, in her lifelong passion for exercise. in To the Lighthouse was a way of getting them out of her head (Killacky 44). From the bestselling, award-winning author of Fun Home.Īll her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an elusive secret. A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOKS OF 2021 PICK From the bestselling, award-winning author of Fun Home All her life, Alison Bechdel has searched for an. graphic novelist Alison Bechdels Are You My Mother may be the queer.
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