That volume ­enjoyed huge advan­tages over its sequel, Are You My ­Mother? (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt): Her childhood home, a meticulously restored ­Victorian, made a spectacularly apt ...

The book gathered great critical praise. However as Bechdel reveals in "Are You My Mother," it came at great personal cost. The new book, a sequel of sorts, is about her relationship with her ...

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 ...