The presiding genii of this particular work include Adrienne Rich, Sigmund Freud, Alice Miller and, above all, Virginia Woolf and the British psychoanalyst DW Winnicott. Like all of Bechdel's work, Are You My Mother? is furiously literary, full of citations and quotations, and crafty symbolic parallels to the books its author is so often depicted reading with furrowed brow. (She doesn't think much of memoir as a genre: "I just don't know why everyone has to write about themselves.") Now, Are You My Mother? scrutinises Bechdel's relationship with her other parent, a woman not only still alive but also on hand to offer comment. After Bechdel came out to her parents at 19, she learned her father had a history of secret homosexual affairs, the revelation of which may have been behind his death in a traffic accident a few weeks later. He devoted most of his time, however, to lovingly restoring and furnishing the family's enormous old Victorian house. Fun Home described Bechdel's rather gothic childhood in small-town Pennsylvania, where her father worked as both high-school English teacher and funeral home director.
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