Fun Home is a memoir, told in a snarky yet guilt-ridden style, and memoirs necessarily are self-indulgent exercises without balance. Alison Bechdel grew up within the family business, a funeral home housed within a Gothic Revival mansion in rural Pennsylvania. Bruce, her father, runs the funeral par...
Fun Home is an autobiography in which Alison Bechdel narrates the story of her childhood and teens, focusing on discovering her sexuality and her relationship with her gay father. She is from a little Pennsylvanian town, and she grows up a tomboy. She leaves her town to go to college, and there she ...
Normally I don't like graphic novels, unless of course they were written by [author:Herge] or they contain Asterix and Obelix, and I did put off reading this for a while but I must say that I was presently surprised. I think I understand why this was included on the reading list of a coursera course...
Through quotes (mostly from psychoanalyst Winnicot and writer Virginia Woolf) and her own writing and art, Bechdel chronicles her struggles with understanding and documenting her family history. Most of the action is either between Bechdel and her therapists or with her mother. I was impatient wit...
Fun Home seems to capture the complexity of life itself in its pages as it draws the reader along. The very layout of the novel with its various sections that are not quite chronological seem to mirror the way that remembrance does not always follow the path of time. There were also various places ...
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