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Fun home : a family tragicomic / Alison Bechdel.

by Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

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London : Jonathan Cape, 2006.

Bechdel, Alison, 1960- -- Childhood and youth -- Comic books, strips, etc. -- Fiction.

Cartoonists -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.

Graphic novels.

9780224080514 (pbk.)

0224080512 (pbk.)

232 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.

This book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny tale, illustrated with Bechdel’s gothic drawings. 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 heart-breaking and 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 adolescent, the denouement is swift, graphic - and redemptive.

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