Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

180 reviews

becksusername's review against another edition

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Car accident, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Alcohol, Homophobia, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Suicide

smoldragon22's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, and Death

phdyke's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Death of parent

babbieabbi's review against another edition

challenging sad medium-paced

3.5

I really feel for Alison and all the other people depicted in this book. She clearly has very complex feelings about her family, and it definitely makes me reflect on my own family dynamics. Although there are many many differences, the mixed emotions are portrayed extremely well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Homophobia, Suicide, and Death of parent

haileyhardcover's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

I don’t know how to rate this book, so I simply will not. Did I enjoy reading it? No, not particularly. It is awkward, painful, and unnecessarily sesquipedalian. Is it also incredible? Undoubtedly, yes. 

The amount of TIME that must’ve gone into writing - or more specifically DRAWING - all of this is mind blowing. With a cursory glance, one might look at Bechdel’s artistic style and think it unoriginal - similar to so many other comics we’ve seen before. But I beg you to look longer. Look at the detail; not in EVERY panel, but so many of them. Look at all of the WORDS. There are so many words - beyond the captions and the speech/thought ballons, so often the art of the panels themselves are just words - snippets from letters, journals, books, newspapers, court records, or the dictionary… and it’s all hand drawn?! I can’t begin to imagine how much time this would take… 

Fun Home is not fun. I cannot say I enjoyed reading it, but I also absolutely cannot deny that it’s a masterpiece. I have no idea how they could’ve turned this into a musical… 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Medical content, Child death, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Sexual assault and Pedophilia

avidales's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Grief, Homophobia, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Car accident, Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Physical abuse

alexisgarcia's review against another edition

dark reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

i think some topics weren’t explored enough, but the story was important and the art style was really nice

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Grief, Alcohol, Infidelity, Death, Outing, Suicide, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

kirkspockreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual violence, Pedophilia, Medical content, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Sexual content

mezzoanddolce's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective sad tense

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Homophobia, and Sexual content

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

pobi's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

3.75

It was very good, and relatively thought provoking but I didn't really love it. Then again, memoir are not often my favourite, and neither are sad books. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Death of parent, Homophobia, Car accident, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Child abuse and Adult/minor relationship