Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic

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Appealing for fans of sapphic graphic family tales.

Fun Home could be a good read for those interested in a moving and darkly humorous family tale. The graphic illustrations and interweaving of childhood memories, college life, and present day add depth to the story. The complex relationship between Alison and her closeted homosexual father is explored in a way that is both heartbreaking and fiercely funny. Overall, Fun Home is a groundbreaking masterpiece that is definitely worth a read.

  • Stonewall Book Award for Non-Fiction (2007)
  • Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography (2007)
  • Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Reality-Based Work (2007)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award for The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic

Regular price $6.06
Unit price
per
ISBN: 9780224080514
Estimated First-hand Retail Price: $42.42
Authors: Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Date of Publication: 2006-09-14
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Biography, Memoir, Biography Memoir
Goodreads rating: 4.08
(rated by 178907 readers)

Description

Fun Home is a fresh and brilliantly told memoir marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst and great books. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form.Meet Alison's father, obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, funeral director, high school English teacher, icily distant parent and closeted homosexual, who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a babysitter. Through a narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
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Appealing for fans of sapphic graphic family tales.

Fun Home could be a good read for those interested in a moving and darkly humorous family tale. The graphic illustrations and interweaving of childhood memories, college life, and present day add depth to the story. The complex relationship between Alison and her closeted homosexual father is explored in a way that is both heartbreaking and fiercely funny. Overall, Fun Home is a groundbreaking masterpiece that is definitely worth a read.

  • Stonewall Book Award for Non-Fiction (2007)
  • Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography (2007)
  • Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for Best Reality-Based Work (2007)
  • The Publishing Triangle Award for The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction (2007)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.