Bechdel became famous when the adaptation of her first graphic memoir, Fun Home, was adapted for a Broadway musical that won 5 Tony’s in 2013.  The writer of a long-running lesbian comic strip and now the author of two outstanding graphic memoirs, Bechdel was a 2014 MacArthur fellow, was named Vermont’s Cartoonist Laureate in 2017, and lives in Bolton, Vermont.  This is only the third graphic book that I’ve read, so I’m hardly an authority, but I loved it. The illustrations complemented the text and vice versa, as Bechdel explored her relationship with her emotionally distant and cerebrally academic mother.  The family constellation is classically weird—a closeted homosexual, mortician, suicide father; a frustrated poet, actress, and late 20^th C. housewifed mother; two younger brothers who are mentioned but then never appear in the memoir.  Bechdel describes herself as serially monogamous lesbian and appears to also be serially therapized, as well, with detailed descriptions of her therapists and the psychological literature behind child development (primarily citing Donald Winnicott’s work on the objective/subjective in mother/child relationships and Alice Miller’s The Drama of the Gifted Child) as she seeks to understand her fraught relationship with her mother.  Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, diaries, and Room of One’s Own are prominently cited as well.   This all makes for an engrossing and entertaining read.  Eager to read Fun Home now to get more backstory.