Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel 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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 06/01/2007
ISBN: 9780618871711
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.08w x 0.57d
Award: Green Mountain Book Award - Nominee

Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 12/11/2009 pg. 84
Library Journal 03/01/2014 pg. 48
Entertainment Weekly 03/06/2015 pg. 72