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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

by Alison Bechdel
Mariner. 2007. 232p. ISBN 9780618871711. pap $14.95; ebk. ISBN 9780547347004.
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OrangeReviewStarBechdel, author of the award-winning comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, paints her own story in this stunning graphic memoir. Her black-and-white line drawings, brushed with a blue wash, bring to life her childhood with her distant actress mother and her mysterious father, the proprietor of a funeral home. Bechdel's coming-out process is stifled when her father commits suicide, and she realizes that he, too, was gay. One of the best graphic memoirs to date, this book was the basis of a long-running off-Broadway play. (LJ 7/06)
Reviewed by Lisa N. Johnston , Mar 01, 2014
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