false 38990 10 This breakout book by Alison Bechdel takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings and like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolisa story exhilaratingly suited to the graphic memoir form. 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. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift . . . graphic . . . and redemptive. 911368 8 6 2006 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic total:6196|5:2793|4:2359|3:809|2:202|1:33| 6196 26265 8178 1288 4 13 false false Sat Sep 15 10:35:15 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 15 20:17:06 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 8 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 15:22:12 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 27 15:53:48 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 3 false true Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue May 27 10:41:01 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 10:43:47 -0700 2008 this big honkin' review special issue comes my review of Fun Home:

Fun Home should hands-down win a major award this year. But what would it be? Graphic novels haven't quite caught on with award-givers even though this one, with its smart weave of the visual and verbal, its in...more...]]> 3 5 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Jun 02 11:11:13 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 08:57:09 -0700 2007 That said, I can't help but compare it to the benchmarks of graphic novel memoirs - "Blankets," "Maus," and "Persepolis" - and it falls ...more...]]> 4 3 false false Wed Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 11:33:18 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 11:35:15 -0800 2008 In...more...]]> 5 4 false false Sat Jul 19 16:53:50 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 10:42:47 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 30 21:08:47 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 31 21:16:49 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 4 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Dec 21 18:55:34 -0800 2007 Fri Dec 21 19:50:16 -0800 2007

This book looks at you with this smug fucking smile on it's face, daring you to say that you don't like it, knowing that masses of people are going to go along with it because they don't wan...more...]]> 3 1 false false Tue Nov 25 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Nov 15 18:59:36 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 20:56:28 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Oct 31 18:47:38 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 19:17:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Nov 22 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Oct 18 18:03:42 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 17 01:00:27 -0800 2008 Persepolis, and although I enjoyed both of them immensely, I'd still feel a little weird seeking othe...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 17 19:50:24 -0700 2008 Mon Oct 13 00:08:23 -0700 2008
It was an interesting way to read it, doing the detective work the whole time of why Amy loves this b...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Aug 20 06:44:43 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 20 06:45:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Nov 16 23:22:25 -0800 2007 Sat Dec 01 21:24:32 -0800 2007
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I’ve never been a huge comics fan. I liked Peanuts from a young age and Doonesbury and I think The Far Side is absolutely perfect, but I never read comic books when I was young. As an adult I’ve foun...more...]]> 0 1 false false Thu Apr 24 11:16:45 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 24 11:22:06 -0700 2008
En 2006, la prestigiosa editorial neoyorquina Houghton Mifflin publicó Fun Home. Una familia tragicómica, el exitosos relato de maduración de Alison Bechdel, que ha sido calificado de "p...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jan 14 07:57:41 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 14 08:04:32 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Aug 12 23:00:58 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 19 09:35:08 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 08:03:25 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 15 08:03:25 -0800 2008 3 1 false false Sat Aug 02 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 25 10:52:46 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 14:31:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=465543