Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Graphic Novel Memoir) [B1797]

2007 PB graphic-novel memoir, in nice clean condition. 2007 WINNER Lambda Literary Award, Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, and Stonewall Book Award. CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER. Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.

Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. 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. 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.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "I found this book very enjoyable contrasting the lives of a father and daughter. One can do so many bad things in life and still have people to love them. This book is very thought provoking and the contrasts with Ulysses have me finding myself urged to read that book as well. The musical is also good."; "Struggled w the sometimes unnecessarily overly flowery language at times, but overall quite introspective and thought-out."; "My first Bechdel, and probably not my last. It's clever and complex but also raw and emotional, combining highbrow classic literary references with intimate personal revelations. The art is simple but expressive."