Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
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Time Magazine #1 Book of the YearΒ β’Β National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistΒ β’Β
Winner of the Stonewall Book AwardΒ β’Β Double finalist for the Lambda Book AwardΒ β’
Nominated for theΒ GLAAD Media Award
Alison Bechdelβs groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father.Β
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.
In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.
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ALISON BECHDELβs cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the New York Times bestselling and Time magazine #1 Book of the Year graphic memoir Fun Home, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and Are You My Mother? Most recently, The Secret to Superman Strength was named a New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2021. Bechdel has been named a MacArthur Fellow, among many other honors.
