Reviews tagging 'Death of parent'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

200 reviews

jamieruwen's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

I mean, you don't need to tell me you that Fun Home is an outstanding piece of literature. It's a remarkable comic-memoir, a coming of age as much as it is a grief novel as much as it is a reconciliation with the father Alison Bechdel knew as a child and the man he turned out to be, as it is a reconciliation of her self with her father's self. Some panels nearly moved me to tears because they were so brilliantly composed (Alison and her father standing in front of the mirror before the wedding!). This might become one of those books that I'll reread every year, it's probably  one of those where you find something new in it every time you read it. 

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Content Warnings

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

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

challenging dark reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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: Homophobia, Sexual content, 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: Body horror, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

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

Minor: Pedophilia and Sexual assault

avidales's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

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, Death, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Outing, and Alcohol

kirkspockreads's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Death of parent

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

mezzoanddolce's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective sad tense

2.75

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Content Warnings

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

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