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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"-- [Publisher description]

Table of Contents:

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

Author/Creator:

Bechdel, Alison, 1960- , author, artist

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

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

Other Related Resources:

Online version: Fun home [by Bechdel, A.] (Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©2006 — OCLC Number 769187329)

Subjects:

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

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

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

Closeted gay people — United States — Comic books, strips, etc.

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

Fathers and daughters — United States — Comic books, strips, etc.

Homosexuality

Bechdel, Alison, 1960-

Fathers and daughters

Families

Closeted gays

Cartoonists

United States

Comic books, strips, etc.

Genres:

Autobiographies

Graphic novels

LGBTQ+ comics

Autobiographical comics

Gay comics

Lesbian comics

General Notes:

Stonewall Book Award, 2007

Creator Demographics:

Americans; Women; Lesbians

Physical Description:

232 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Physical Characteristics:

illustration

Call Numbers:

PN6727.B3757 Z46 2007

ISBNs:

0618871713 (paperback)
9780618871711 (paperback)
9780618477944 (hardcover)
0618477942 (hardcover)

Other Standard Numbers:

International Article Number: 9780618477944

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2005030304

OCLC Numbers:

62127870