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Fun Home

a Family Tragicomic
Aug 18, 2019rlbeekman rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Bechdel is equally skilled at drawing and writing in this graphic memoir. It tells her story of growing up with a father who is a closeted but active homosexual, a high school English teacher, a funeral home owner, and a restorer of that historical "fun home" in their small and somewhat claustrophobically close-knit Pennsylvania town. The story is not told in simple chronological order, but in a series of chapters that orbit key events in her father's life, particularly his death -- either by accident or suicide at age 44 -- and her own experiences with childhood obsessive-compulsive disorder and increasing clarity about her lesbian identity. This is a sometimes funny, sometimes acerbic, sometimes tender, but always unflinchingly honest memoir of an unusual upbringing.