Fun Home

By Alison Bechdel

Subjects: Biography, Reading level-grade 10, Novelas gráficas, collectionID:bannedbooks, New york times reviewed, LGBTQ graphic novels, Muñequitos, tiras cómicas, Lambda literary awards, Closeted gays, Reading Level-Grade 12, Stonewall book awards, New York Times bestseller, Reading Level-Grade 9, Novela gráfica, Lambda Literary Awards, Comic books, strips, Nyt:paperback-graphic-books=2012-05-20, Reading level-grade 12, Family Relations, Lambda Literary Award Winner, Lambda literary award winner, Serietecknare, Reading Level-Grade 8, collectionID:KellerChallenge, Reading level-grade 7, Tochter, Comics & graphic novels, nonfiction, general, Reading Level-Grade 7, Cartoonists, New York Times reviewed, Reading level-grade 11, Caricaturistas, Reading level-grade 9, Family relationships, Graphic novels, LGBTQ biography and memoir, Homosexuality, Reading level-grade 8, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Reading Level-Grade 11, Stonewall Book Awards, nyt:paperback-graphic-books=2012-05-20, Lesbian cartoonists, Lgbtq graphic novels, New york times bestseller, Tecknade serier, Reading Level-Grade 10, Homosexualität, Comiczeichnerin, Lesbians, collectionID:TexChallenge2021, Lesbian Studies, Collection:judy_grahn_award=winner, Mishnah, Lgbtq biography and memoir, Lesbians, biography, collection:judy_grahn_award=winner

Description: A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with 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 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 adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.