Fun Home

A Family Tragicomic

Author: Alison Bechdel
ISBN: 9780618871711

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expr

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publish Date: 2007

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Women, Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Comics & Graphic Novels / Literary, Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction, Psychology / Developmental / Child

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Visual/ Performing Arts)