Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Paperback – 5 June 2007

"Fun Home" is an absolutely stunning work: the best text that I have read in a long, long time. Bechdel is an amazing storyteller: she knows what to say when and how. Yet, she understands, appreciates, and accepts life's complexities without trying to force her way through them. Her bond with her father, for instance, is shown in the book to be what it must have been: complicated and unusual but still warm and affecting. This makes "Fun Home" such a special book. Most readers will thus likely feel that Bechdel has found the best way, structure, style, and drawings to tell the story of her family and herself in the text--a manner of writing that almost achieves the perfect match between form and content.

Tragic mostly,beautiful always,warm occasionaly. Dont know what to feel, really. A coming of age story with some great literary references.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel is a graphic memoir. It's the author's story of her relationship with her father. She comes as a lesbian in college and later finds out that her father is gay. The book is very emotional and shows an extremely complicated family dynamic. I really admire the author in penning down her own story in this wonderful graphic novel. .

Fun Home was my introduction to Alison Bechdel and I enjoyed it very much - it is a beautiful, raw and poignant book that is also funny in parts. It is similar to Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis in the sense that it also uses humor to deal with serious issues, but it leans more towards being a "confessional" graphic novel than Persepolis does. I have just ordered a second book - a compilation of her Dykes to Watch Out For series, which ran successfully for 25 years and is considered one of the earliest representations of LGBTs in American popular culture.

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the writing is great as I am Still reading the book but the quality of print is less than satisfactory with double-prints and smudginess all around.

One of the best graphic novels I have ever read. Highly recommended. Brutally honest and courageous work.

The most beautiful book to be ever read. Bechdel's life from a confused child and a distant teen to a woman who explores her life throughout, gives one immense satisfaction of having completed something that isn't any different than a fictional story had that been concluded.