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Sep 20, 2019
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The best self-proclaimed family tragicomedy I’ve ever read! “Fun” Home partly refers to a funeral home owned by the Bechdel family. Which isn’t even the most interesting thing about the book. This is a fantastic graphic memoir, mostly focused on the author’s father from her perspective: his quirkiness, his sexuality, his intelligence, his bad decisions and even his criminality. The author writes and illustrates an intimate story about her family, her father and their complicated relationship. Lo
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First read: 6/27/2009 Awesome graphic novel. So funny and so heartbreaking.
Second read: 6/13/2016 I had forgotten how many literary allusions there are in this graphic novel. During this second reading, I found those references a little tiresome, perhaps because I have read almost none of the books. But Bechdel's yearning for her father's attention as a child, the value she placed on his correspondence with her during college, and the depths to which she misses and longs to understand him after ...more
Second read: 6/13/2016 I had forgotten how many literary allusions there are in this graphic novel. During this second reading, I found those references a little tiresome, perhaps because I have read almost none of the books. But Bechdel's yearning for her father's attention as a child, the value she placed on his correspondence with her during college, and the depths to which she misses and longs to understand him after ...more
Deeply personal. Emotionally harrowing. Beautiful art and prose. I came to read this novel after listening to the musical version of Fun Home, and they're both so excellent in their own ways of telling one family's story.
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I would put this at 3.5 stars if I could.
I loved the artwork in this volume, which I read on the Kindle app on my husband's iPad. (The visuals will not display on my Kindle Paperwhite.) The one-color palette - besides black and white, of course - was used to really accentuate the people and settings in the panels, and I liked how the greenish color would even go lighter and darker, as needed. On some pages, figuring out which panel to read in which order was difficult, but then I discovered tha ...more
I loved the artwork in this volume, which I read on the Kindle app on my husband's iPad. (The visuals will not display on my Kindle Paperwhite.) The one-color palette - besides black and white, of course - was used to really accentuate the people and settings in the panels, and I liked how the greenish color would even go lighter and darker, as needed. On some pages, figuring out which panel to read in which order was difficult, but then I discovered tha ...more
In this graphic memoir, Bechdel chronicles her relationship with her closeted father and how his secret double life affected the family, as well as her own coming out journey.
what's not to love about this clear eyed vision of dysfunctional queer family life? DOes get a bit intellectual abstract
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Nov 28, 2011
Leslie
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