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elm2091's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Suicide, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia
pandorasirens's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Death, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, and Suicide
Minor: Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, and Sexism
sofipitch's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Death of parent
Moderate: Suicide
blackberryjambaby's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Homophobia, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Racial slurs, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Death of parent, and Outing
Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Medical content, Grief, and Alcohol
fosgun's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Death of parent
Moderate: Suicide
gussurireads's review against another edition
5.0
So I went in completely blind. Mind you, I am fan of graphic novels. I don't read a lot of memoirs, though. But Alison Bechdel writes and draws a compelling, honest and yes, at times pretentious, story of her bizarre family, drawing parallels between herself, an out and proud lesbian, to her closeted, deeply repressed father.
It's not the kind of graphic novel that you breeze through in a couple of hours. It took me a few days of carefully going through this and still there's so many references that eluded me, what with me not being an English major or a very cultured reader (I enjoy my fantasy, ok?)
Still, so much of Allison's story resonated with me, as most queer stories do. The act of discovering a new part of ourselves, coming to terms with it, rejoicing in this newfound identity, is quite possible the most universal queer experience of them all, and Bechdel is a master at embellishing her own experience. Like father, like daughter, indeed.
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Sexual content, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Homophobia
jamieruwen's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Infidelity, Physical abuse, Suicide, Car accident, and Death of parent
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship
Graphic: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Mentioned: Child Sexual Abuse. Alison's father has "relationships" with teenagers and was sexually abused himself. However none of the affected characters express any negative feelings towards those experiences.becksusername's review against another edition
4.0
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Suicide, Car accident, Death of parent, Alcohol, and Dysphoria
smoldragon22's review against another edition
5.0
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Homophobia, Grief, Death of parent, and Lesbophobia
phdyke's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Suicide and Death of parent