TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bechdel, Alison
TI  - Fun home : a family tragicomic
SN  - 0224080512
PY  - 2006///
CY  - London
PB  - Jonathan Cape
KW  - ADOLESCENCE
KW  - CARTOONS
KW  - GRAPHIC NOVELS
KW  - HOMOSEXUALITY
KW  - PERSONAL NARRATIVES
N2  - One of the most eagerly anticipated graphic memoirs of recent years, Fun Home is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison 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 the family babysitter. Through 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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