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Interviewed: NPR talks to Alison Bechdel

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Alan Gardner May 29, 2012 1 minute 1 comment

NPR talked to Alison Bechdel:

Cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s first memoir came out in 2006. Called Fun Home, it dug deep into her complicated relationship with her father, a closeted gay man who poured his emotional energy into redecorating their Victorian Gothic home. He died, possibly a suicide, shortly after Bechdel herself came out as a lesbian in college.

That’s a lot of information to take in, but it’s an essential backdrop for Bechdel’s new book, Are You My Mother? It’s a searching, and at times visceral, portrait of Bechdel and her mother – a relationship that’s still evolving.