Such a great memoir. Bechdel's graphics really worked for me. I like reading comics/graphic novels, but the images are usually secondary to me. That wasn't the case with Fun House. In terms of reading experiences it reminded me of This One Summer.
An erudite, self-aware feminist memoir, in graphic novel form, examining a lesbian’s childhood relationship with her parents – especially her closeted gay father. Fun Home is chock full of psychoanalysis, literary criticism and commentary on gender, sexuality and suicide. You may recognise the autho...
EDIT: Abril, 2015[Releyendo e a poquito. ¡Qué ganas de comprarlo en físico!]Reseña Original: Enero 2015Estoy un poco revolucionada, así que la siguiente reseña es un desvarío en pocos párrafos. Sepan disculpar. "Not only we were inverts. We were inversions of one another. While I was trying to compe...
Probably my favourite graphic memoir that I've read. Usually I come away from a graphic novel memoir--or any memoir, really--feeling halfway skeptical and wanting either more or less, but there's nothing at all to complain about here. Bechdel is breathtakingly insightful and smart, but never in a wa...
It is impossible not to compare this to Bechdel’s phenomenal Fun Home, as you will quickly gather by looking at any other review. I, like many, many others still prefer the paired-down, slightly distanced power of Fun Home to this much more introspective and solipsistic approach, but when you get do...
I finished this book in an hour and a half. Then I threw it across the room. This is not a book about the author's mother. It's about the author and her hopeless neuroses.
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