Fun Home

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a graphic memoir published in 2006 by Alison Bechdel, creator of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It follows the author's upbringing and adolescence in rural Pennsylvania, concentrating on her complicated relationship with her father. Sexual orientation, gender roles, suicide, emotional abuse, dysfunctional family life, and the significance of literature in understanding oneself and one's family are all addressed in the book.

Alison Bechdel's acclaimed comic novel, inspired by her father's suicide, is an intricately nuanced narrative of life and artifice, family quiet and disclosure. He was a remote guy who committed himself to the restoration of his huge Victorian mansion — and to a secret romantic life with young men. The title is an acronym for the family company, a funeral parlor, but it also alludes to the dual funhouse image of father and daughter, as well as the author's own queerness.

It's a sexual and intellectual coming-of-age drama that floats along literary lines, paying homage to the books that nurtured and appeared to speak for Bechdel and her parents: Kate Millet, Proust, Oscar Wilde, philosophy, poetry, and literature. Fun Home is a unique, melancholy, complicated piece of art that joins that lineage.

Detailed information:

Author: Alison Bechdel
Language: English
Genre: Graphic novel, Memoir

Link to read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26135825