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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.
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As absorbing as it is graced with a deceptive lightness of touch, it is clever, brilliantly pieced together, and utterly unusual.
- Sunday Times

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.
- Telegraph

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!
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Pure bliss.
- Observer

Bechdel’s engaging, original graphic memoir explores her troubled relationship with her distant mother.
- New York Times

A complex, fascinating and intellectually rich memoir.
- Metro

Very original and arresting.
- Spectator

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.
- Scotsman

Lively, fresh and expressive…humane, complex and beautiful.
- Irish Times

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

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