Though the description above makes Are You My Mother? sound like the summit of self-absorbed navel gazing, the book is a page turner, thanks in part to Bechdel's lovely and subtle illustrations.

Woolf shows up in the first chapter of Alison Bechdel's inventive graphic memoir "Are You My Mother?", strolling with her dog through a double-page spread depicting Tavistock Square in Bloomsbury ...

Yet, a few pages into Alison Bechdel’s latest memoir, “Are You My Mother?” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 290 pp., $22), I was hooked despite the comic-book format. A hundred pages in ...

“Are You My Mother?” is part of the Beginner Books ... And, like Dr. Seuss, Eastman had his own distinctive artistic style; his illustrations have a cartoonlike quality to them that ...