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100			_aBechdel, Alison
245		0	_aFun home : a family tragicomic
260			_aLondon _bJonathan Cape _c2006
300			_a232 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm. (pbk)
520			_aOne 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.
650			_aADOLESCENCE
650			_aCARTOONS
650			_aGRAPHIC NOVELS
650			_aHOMOSEXUALITY
650			_aPERSONAL NARRATIVES
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