Alison Bechdel’s New Graphic Memoir Is About Her Mother – What Does Mom Think?

“She really feels like the book is – she sees the hostility; she doesn’t see the love. And that is distressing to me. … I got a pre-pub review that talked about my ‘substantive yet essentially distant’ relationship with my mother, and I showed her that review and she was really psyched about it. … She did not seem the least bit fazed to hear our relationship described as ‘substantive yet essentially distant’.”