Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, United States, focusing on …

Jun 5, 2007 · Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. 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."

Jun 8, 2006 · Fun Home is a memoir in graphic novel form, centering Alison Bechdel's coming of age, struggles with her sexual identity, and her father, who committed suicide when she was 20 years old. Alison finds out after her dad dies that he was gay.

Jun 30, 2022 · 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.

Jun 5, 2007 · A powerful graphic novel-memoir, Fun Home documents Bechdel's childhood experiences and coming-of-age as a woman and lesbian. At its center lies her heartbreaking relationship with her distant father, which produces emotionally complex and poignant reflections and clean, bitonal images.

Fun Home: A Tragicomic is a graphic memoir that tells the story of author Alison Bechdel and her fraught relationship with her father, Bruce, a closeted gay man and a sexual predator who killed himself when Alison was 19.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel tracing her journey from young girl to young adult as she comes to grips with her own lesbian sexuality, her father Bruce ’s (most likely) suicide, and his secret homosexuality or bisexuality that he kept hidden throughout his life while having affairs with underage boys.

Sep 17, 2019 · Fun Home: A Family Tragicomedy is a memoir chronicling the author’s coming out/coming-of-age story in the form of a graphic novel. The memoir explores Bechdel’s journey from childhood to college student to adult in relation to both her identity as a lesbian and her dynamic with her family, particularly her father who is a closeted gay man.

Jun 5, 2007 · Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. 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."

Mar 8, 2023 · 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.