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Alison Bechdel, author of the widely read comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For and the best-selling graphic novel Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, has created yet another hybrid form - the graphic comic psychoanalytic memoir. Following her searching portrayal of her bisexual and closeted gay father in Fun Home, Bechdel probes her equally conflicted, but more emotionally fraught, relationship with her mother in Are You My Mother? The difference is that she includes scenes from selected psychotherapy sessions,