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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel

2007 232 pages
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About this book

In this graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father.<br /><br />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 <i>Fun Home.</i> 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.