Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

163 reviews

jrowe93's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Sexual content

Minor: Child abuse

onalark's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Emotional abuse

Minor: Homophobia

readingbrb's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Suicide

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Toxic relationship

cc24680's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Medical content, Grief, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Cursing, Homophobia, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Car accident, and Injury/Injury detail

satsumaorange's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

What a unique look into the mind of one of the most influential lesbian artists I know of! I found many of Bechdel's experiences profoundly relatable, and I actually teared up a few times. Essential reading for the sapphics with daddy issues out there (I see you <3)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Car accident, Suicide attempt, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Grief, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Body shaming, Cursing, Drug use, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Outing

This is the Lesbian Daddy Issues book, so if that kind of thing is triggery, this isn't the book for you. There are also illustrations of (sometimes naked) dead bodies, and (thankfully unrelated) illustrations of sex. This isn't a book to read in public, probably.

arebe's review against another edition

dark emotional funny medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

vurren's review against another edition

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Lesbophobia

Minor: Homophobia, Mental illness, and Dysphoria

pokewhat's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring fast-paced

4.5

Bechdel's memoir is a gripping retelling of her early life and her relationship with her father as well as herself. The illustrations capture so many details of her past, while her prose captures you and carries you through the pages. 

The way she relates all the things that happened in her life then, with her sexuality, her father's sexuality, her tense home life, her father's death, and her coming to terms with it, all along with occurrences in literature that dominated her life during those times, as well as the greater world, it's honestly impressive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Car accident

Minor: Pedophilia and Suicide

kaetheluise_nckl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Sexual content, Car accident, Death of parent, and Outing

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Grief

Minor: Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

OCD (mentioned briefly, undiagnosed)

lostinthelibrary's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

4.0

I don't read many memoirs and I've never before read a graphic novel so this was definitely out of my comfort zone!

I did take a bit of time to get used to the format. At first I felt like my eyes were darting all over the page and I was missing details, but once I got used to it I was able to really immerse myself in the story and reading became a lot more effortless.

This is a coming of age story focusing equally on personal identity and family relationships. It felt deeply personal and Alison did a great job at inhabiting her thoughts and feelings at various points in her childhood and young adulthood. Even though the timeline was non-linear, I never felt lost.

Of course, a lot of this was due to the illustrations. I was in awe of the perfectly struck balance between simplicity and detail and the way Alison subtly changed her characters to age them or represent a theme (e.g. her father as a greek god). It was all extremely clever and I'm sure if I thumbed through it again I would notice new details. 

I will say that some of the themes went a little over my head, Alison is clearly a voracious reader and makes frequent references to literature and I think if I had read more of the books she refers to I would have had a fuller experience of this novel. Interestingly two of the references were to books I have read this month (The Wind in The Willows and The Portrait of a Lady). There is also a lot left unsaid and that lack of closure may be frustrating to some. But hey, real life is rarely neat. 

Overall this was a very positive reading experience for me and I'm glad that I expanded my reading horizons. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Suicide