Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama

Alternate title: woman goes to therapy.  Repeated through each graphic memoir by this author, there is a separation from what she is confronting in her relationships by intersecting with analysis of other texts, this time psychoanalyst works and Virginia Woolf diary/memoirs. Maybe it helps ? The art, in the absence of colour and exuberance, is perhaps more fitting for a memoir by focusing on accuracy in reproducing true to life bodies, expressions, still lives of objects, even photographs.  I appreciate the unique structure of each section beginning with a recounted dream and analysis of it. What struck me most was the sublimation of self - how much of her mother got lost in the lives of her family (parents, husband, children), seeming to result in detachment, how it appears to have formed her unwillingness to embrace all aspects of her daughter's identity, to the extent that she cannot truly celebrate her as a woman or lesbian, and how much the author struggles to maintain healthy relationships and healthy mindset, in part (her father also plays a large role), as a result of this upbringing.  I am glad for the author that she seems to reach a place of forgiveness at the close of the book.