Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

Paperback, 2007

Status

Available

Call number

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Autobiography & Memoir

Description

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)

Barcode

4570

Call number

COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Autobiography & Memoir

Collection

Physical description

232 p.; 9 inches

ISBN

0544709047 / 9780544709041

UPC

046442871716

Publication

Mariner Books (2007), Edition: Reprint, 232 pages

Original publication date

2006-06-08

Language

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