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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
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Fun Home (edition 2006)

by Alison Bechdel

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This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, 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 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 expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.--From publisher description.… (more)
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Title:Fun Home
Authors:Alison Bechdel
Info:Jonathan Cape (2006), Edition: Second Printing, Paperback, 240 pages
Collections:Your library
Rating:****1/2
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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

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A lovely memoir in comic form. Not the best artwork or content, but very enjoyable to read and may be quite beneficial for an LGBTQ reader in their coming of age-- unfortunately I think that chapter of my life has already passed me by, so I am not the ideal audience for this particular tome. Still, time well spent reading it. ( )
  LadyLast | Jan 19, 2024 |
Story: 7 / 10
Characters: 8.5
Setting: 6.5
Prose: 10
Art: 7

Although the book was well done and is considered one of the best graphic novels ever written, it did not appeal to me at all. I would only recommend it to literary fiction readers. ( )
  MXMLLN | Jan 12, 2024 |
I agree with Nathan that this isn't a hilarious book, but I thought it was waaaaay better than [book: Running with Scissors]--and not just because of all the literary stuff. I think I liked it better because it seemed more honest. And it had great pictures. I particularly liked it when she would draw the house from the outside with the windows framing each person. ( )
  LibrarianDest | Jan 3, 2024 |
You know all those blurbs on the cover of this book? With all the superlatives? For once, they are true: this is a masterpiece of the genre, and a memoir that is virtually certain to resonate with all who read it. Very highly recommended.
  Mark_Feltskog | Dec 23, 2023 |
Ugghhh Shut upppp. I hate these dry, Frasier mothafuckas. ( )
  AvANvN | Dec 11, 2023 |
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Bechdel’s style is straightforward. Her detailed drawings strive to present what she remembers accurately and with detail. The book is black-and-white with a blue-grey watercolor wash that provides depth and adds to the feeling of memory.
 
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For Mom, Christian, and John.

We did have a lot of fun,
in spite of everything.
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Like many fathers, mine could occasionally be prevailed on for a spot of "airplane."
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This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, 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 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 expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.--From publisher description.

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Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.
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