Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel

Enjoyment: 3.5Quality: 3.5Characters: 3.5Plot: 3.5
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In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.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.

Publication Year: 2007


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    "I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on them." Quote from the MC in her freshman English class "Mythology and archetypal experience" I feel this way about a lot commentary on Bookstagram and BookTok. May post in club forum later for a discussion.

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