"Are You My Mother"

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The autobiographical details in Alison Bechdel's new book is vintage Bechdel.

• It took her six months to tell her mother about she getting her period.
• Her relief that 'I am an terminus'.
• Her mom telling her Daniel Mendelsohn "beat you for the prize"
• Phone calls with her mom was "her (mom's) daily journal entry" aloud.
• Her mom's undivided attention "a treat like a hummingbird"

__ a sublime feeling of surrender
__ The running tap of her life flows through my fingers.
__ Unfurling of the self into the world
__ Mom's letter: "Patterns are my existence"

Virginia Woolf:
__ For nothing is simply one thing.
__ Nothing added to my disquisition, and life allowed to waste like a tap left running. Eleven days unrecorded.