Fun Home
A Family Tragicomic
Recommended by Hillary Chute, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #2 in Lesbian, Ranked #7 in LGBT — see more rankings.
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. less
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Hillary Chute Alison has a strip that’s been running for a long time called Dykes to Watch Out For, but this is an autobiographical book. ‘Fun Home’ is short for the funeral home Alison’s dad ran when she was a child. It’s a book that blew me away and continues to blow me away every time I read it – and I must have read it five or six times by now: probably the best book I’ve read in the past ten years in any genre or form. It’s an incredibly crafted book in which the chapters are not chronological but thematic, and each chapter is keyed to a book that her father loved. So it’s not a book about what... (Source)
Rankings by Category
Fun Home is ranked in the following categories:
- #46 in 21st Century
- #24 in Art History
- #22 in Autobiography
- #60 in Biography
- #10 in Broadway
- #21 in Cartoons
- #22 in Comic
- #44 in Coming Of Age
- #37 in Death
- #32 in Dying
- #43 in Family
- #7 in Fatherhood
- #65 in Feminism
- #10 in Gay
- #16 in Gender
- #57 in Grief
- #19 in Identity
- #14 in Illustrated
- #11 in Illustration
- #13 in Memoir
- #19 in Memory Improvement
- #56 in Self Discovery
- #34 in Sex
- #8 in Sexuality
- #15 in Suicide
- #88 in True Story
- #24 in University
- #40 in Women
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