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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

67 reviews

literaryinluv's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.75

You can't really put a rating on someone's life or perspective of their life. But you can on the execution. This memoir is littered with literary references, sometimes to a fault, but I enjoyed most of them anyway. However, it also got a bit convoluted due to this. Overall, though, I enjoyed it, and I believe the rating may be higher if I read it a second time in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Biphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Grief, Lesbophobia, and Alcohol

ferdie's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

Fun House is intellectual and vulnerable. The cartoon style really helps show the emotion behind the complex thoughts. I was not familiar with all the literature references so I feel like I missed some points of the book :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Suicide, Grief, and Car accident

Minor: Child abuse

emmylouwri's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

I really, really enjoyed this. She perfectly captures the strangeness of loving family. Borrowing a critique from another reviewer- the heavy literary references were difficult to follow for someone who hasn’t read most of the books. I loved the setting, the genius title, the dark humor… Wow, Bechdel packed so much reflection into this memoir. I’m excited to read Are You My Mother? soon. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia and Car accident

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Car accident, and Death of parent

jesika's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Outing

tree_branch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Infidelity, Grief, Lesbophobia, and Outing

Minor: Sexual assault and Pregnancy

moonchildjuli's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Sexual content, Suicide, Car accident, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia

mina_m's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, and Death of parent

abbyj_04's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

it was a little hard to understand at times, but overall i enjoyed it a lot. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cursing, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Lesbophobia, and Outing

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

saucy_bookdragon's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

 

Written by the creator of the often misunderstood Bechdel Test, Alison Bechdel, Fun Home is a graphic memoir that explores the life of Bechdel, mainly her complicated relationship to her father. Right after she came out to her parents as a lesbian, she learned her father was queer and then he died.

I had to read this for a college class and was glad I got to study something so gay. It was a sad memoir that I’d recommend to people looking for literature that specifically explores queerness, less-than-ideal-familial relationships, and mental health, all in depth. I found the relationship between Bechdel and her father to be fascinating as he wasn’t a good person, but he struggled with a lot of stuff similar to Alison with mental health and homophobia so they had a unique connection. This leads to a complicated grieving process that this memoir explores. It’s also nice to know who Alison Bechdel is when participating in Bechdel Test discourse (the Bechdel Test is a sapphic test, not a feminist one).

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Medical content, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, and Lesbophobia

rayannotates's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

i don’t think i’ve ever read a book that i’ve so closely related to in regards to my sentiments towards my father.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing, Mental illness, Pedophilia, and Suicide

Minor: Child death and Toxic relationship