pioneering." -Sean Wilsey The New York Times Book Review "Fun Home must be the most ingeniously compact, hyper-verbose example of autobiography to have been produced. "One of the very best graphic novels ever." Booklist, ALA, Starred Review " details.are devastatingly captured by an artist in total control of her craft." -Chip Kidd, author of The Cheese Monkeys "Brave and forthright and insightful-exactly what Alison Bechdel does best." -Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina "If David Sedaris could draw, and if Bleak House had been a little funnier, you'd have Alison Bechdel's Fun Home." -Amy Bloom, author of A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You “Alison Bechdel – she’s one of the best, one to watch out for." -Harvey Pekar shares as much in spirit with.other contemporary memoirists of considerable literary accomplishment." Kirkus Reviews, Starred " hits notes that resemble Jeanette Winterson at her best.She's made a story that's quiet dignified." Publishers Weekly, Starred
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic - and redemptive. 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.
Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, 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 his male students and a family babysitter. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.
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