Are You My Mother? Signed First Edition Reference

Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012) is Bechdel’s companion memoir to Fun Home, exploring her relationship with her mother Helen Bechdel through the lens of psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf, and Donald Winnicott’s object relations theory. The book is more intellectually demanding and structurally complex than Fun Home, weaving multiple temporal and theoretical threads into a unified narrative.

First Edition Identification

HMH hardcover, 2012. First printing identifiable by number line.

Signed Copy Market Values

• Signed first edition: $30–$75
• Unsigned first edition: $10–$20

Are You My Mother? has received critical acclaim but has not achieved the cultural penetration of Fun Home. For collectors, it represents an opportunity to acquire signed Bechdel material at a more accessible price point.