TY - BOOK AU - Bechdel,Alison TI - Fun home: a family tragicomic SN - 9780618871711 U1 - 741.5 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston PB - Mariner Classics KW - Bechdel, Alison, KW - Cartoonists KW - Comic books, strips, etc KW - United States KW - Autobiographical comics KW - Autobiography KW - Comics (Graphic works) KW - Gay comics KW - Homosexuality KW - Family Relations KW - Fathers and daughters KW - Lesbian comics KW - LGBTQ+ comics N2 - 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 "Fun Home." 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. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail UR - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26135825-fun-home?ref=nav_sb_ss_1_13#CommunityReviews ER -