Alison Bechdel is a talented writer and artist. This is the first long-format graphic novel I've read and I found it immensely readable. If I were more of a Virginia Woolf fan or more familiar with Winnicut's psychology, I may have enjoyed this more because she does a good job telling her story within the larger context of universal mother-child challenges. She kind of reminded me of the neurotic friends who fill my Facebook wall with posts about their every thought and action, no matter how mundane, because they've had too much therapy.