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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
About this book
One of the most eagerly anticipated graphic memoirs of recent years, Fun Homeis 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.
Book Details
| ISBN13 | 9780224080514 |
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| ISBN10 | 0224080512 |
| Series/Work | OL1835957W View on OpenLibrary |
| Publisher | Jonathan Cape |
| Pages | 240 |
| Language | ENG |
| Created At | January 30, 2025 |
| Updated At | January 30, 2025 |
| Last OL update | January 18, 2025 |