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Book SynopsisAlison Bechdel is the author of the bestselling memoir
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and, most recently,
Are You My Mother? For twenty-five years, she wrote and drew the comic strip
Dykes to Watch Out For, a visual chronicle of modern life - queer and otherwise - considered 'one of the pre-eminent oeuvres in the comics genre.' Alison Bechdel is guest editor of
Best American Comics, 2011, and has drawn comics for
Slate,
McSweeney's,
Entertainment Weekly,
Granta, and the
New York Times Book Review.
Trade ReviewFun 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 *
Bulging with literary allusions from Proust to Scott Fitzgerald,
Fun Home is a book that demands to be read again and again. * Royal Academy Magazine *
One of the very best graphic novels ever * Booklist *
A brilliant, bleakly hilarious memoir in comic-book form * Time *
A beautiful, assured piece of work... Bechdel's cartooning has transmuted [her father's] life and death into an extraordinary book * Salon.com *
