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Summary:

This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, 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 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 adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.--From publisher description.

Table of Contents:

• Old father, old artificer
• A happy death
• That old catastrophe
• In the shadow of young girls in flower
• The canary-colored caravan of death
• The ideal husband
• The antihero's journey.

Author/Creator:

Bechdel, Alison, 1960- , author, illustrator

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Fun home: a family tragicomic [by Bechdel, A.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Fun home [by Bechdel, A.] (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©2006 — ISBN 9780618477944; LCCN 2005030304; OCLC Number 62127870)

Subjects:

Bechdel, Alison, 1960- — Comic books, strips, etc.

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

Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

Cartoonists

United States

Genres:

Graphic novels

Comics (Graphic works)

Comic books, strips, etc.

General Notes:

American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007
"A Mariner book."
Description based on: Print version record.

Creator Demographics:

Americans
Women

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 pages) : chiefly illustrations

Call Numbers:

PN6727.B3757 Z46 2006eb

ISBNs:

0547347006 (electronic book)
0618477942
9780618477944
9780547347004 (electronic bk.)
9780618871711 (paperback) [Invalid]
0618871713 (paperback) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

International Article Number: 9780618477944

OCLC Numbers:

769187329