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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a 2006 graphic memoir by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, United States, focusing on her complex relationship with her father.
- Alison Bechdel
- 240 p.
- 2006
- Graphic novel, memoir
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is a graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel tracing her journey from young girl to young adult as she comes to grips with her own lesbian sexuality, her father Bruce ’s (most likely) suicide, and his secret homosexuality or bisexuality that he kept hidden throughout his life while having affairs with underage boys.
Jun 5, 2007 · ALISON BECHDEL’s cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the New York Times bestselling and Time magazine #1 Book of the Year graphic memoir Fun Home, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and Are You My Mother?
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- Alison Bechdel
- Alison Bechdel
Jun 8, 2006 · Fun Home is a memoir in graphic novel form, centering Alison Bechdel's coming of age, struggles with her sexual identity, and her father, who committed suicide when she was 20 years old. Alison finds out after her dad dies that he was gay.
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- Paperback
- Alison Bechdel
Jun 30, 2022 · 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.
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Jun 5, 2007 · Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Kindle & comiXology. by Alison Bechdel (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.5 4,313 ratings. Part of: Fun Home. See all formats and editions. Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Winner, 2007. Lambda Literary Award Winner, 2007. Stonewall Book Award Winner, 2007. CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER.
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Jun 5, 2007 · Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Alison Bechdel. HarperCollins, Jun 5, 2007 - Comics & Graphic Novels - 240 pages. CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER. Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year...
