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Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Fun Home

A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel

HarperCollins · Print & ebook · June 5, 2007

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father.

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Who it’s for
A graphic memoir where family history meets literary allusion, dry humor, and unresolved questions.
Themes
Family estrangement, Queer identity, Grief and family mystery
Genres
Graphic Biography & Memoir, LGBTQ+ Comics, LGBTQ+ Lives

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CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist Winner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father.

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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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A graphic memoir where family history meets literary allusion, dry humor, and unresolved questions.

Come here for

  • A daughter’s account of a fraught relationship with her father
  • Personal history rendered with subtlety and wit

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  • Rich literary allusion and controlled force
  • Heartbreaking detail alongside humor

Where it sits

Graphic Biography & Memoir93%
LGBTQ+ Lives66%
LGBTQ+ Comics52%

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Publisher categories

  • Fantasy Comics
  • Graphic Biography & Memoir
  • Contemporary Women Graphic Novels
  • LGBTQ+ Comics
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Authors
Alison Bechdel
Publisher
HarperCollins
Published
June 5, 2007
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Family estrangement · Queer identity · Grief and family mystery
Reading lane
Fantasy Comics