Fun Home
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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. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian
… More »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. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, 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 male students and a family babysitter. 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. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.--From publisher description.
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Add a CommentThis book was okay. I agree with the reviewer that said that it just seemed like she kept telling the same story over and over again just added a few more details every time. The art didn't seem to follow in some of the areas. All in all probably not one that I will be recommending to me friends.
I think that I am one of those who just don't "get" graphic novels/memoirs. I would rather read a more detailed narrative and imagine the scenarios for myself. I know that pictures can convey emotions and nuances that are hard to write, but I don't know that I necessarily pick up on those nuances. At least they are quick to read. That said, I did mostly enjoy this book. At times it seemed over-wrought, and other times it seemed to be simply observing the situation. I wish that there had been more of a continuous narrative thread through the book, instead of chapters that felt more like self-contained vignettes.
Loved this - so different.
Beautiful, thoughtful, tragic. Bechdel evokes the joy and pain of a distant father.
Read it, you won't be sorry.
A masterful melding of words and art, this is an excellent graphic novel that tells a compelling, personal story. Bechtel evokes time, place and feeling so well and tells the story of her and her father's struggle poignantly, yet unsentimentally. I really savored this book and couldn't put it down until the end. After I finished it I kept going back to re-read sections. It's one of those books you want to give your attention to and really sink into.
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I find myself wanting to read for the plot and to examine for the drawings. I love Alison Bechdel.
The rare graphic novel that is extremely well written.
This was perhaps the first graphic work I read that made me realize how much pictures could add to text. It's a wonderful memoir. The images really convey a great deal and enrich the work. (FWIW, I went from here to Posy Simmonds work (Gemma Bovary and Tamara Drewe)--also very good examples of the graphic form as something to be taken seriously.)