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.

Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir "Are You My Mother?" is an in-depth excavation of a mother-daughter relationship. Bechdel discusses her book Friday May 11 at the University Book Store.

ARE YOU MY MOTHER? by Alison Bechdel (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), 304 pages, $25.95 cloth. Rating: NNNN In Alison Bechdel’s acclaimed and bestselling 2006 graphic novel Fun Home, she wove the ...

"Are You My Mother?" is a tender and wide-ranging examination of Alison Bechdel's relationship with her living mother, an actress and critic with a crisp surface and an intricate interior.

In her fragmentary memoir “Moments of Being,” Virginia Woolf writes that she was obsessed with her mother, who died when Woolf was 13, until the age of 44, when she finally laid her to rest in ...