Reviews tagging 'Car accident'

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

66 reviews

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

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

jesika's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

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

tree_branch's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

mina_m's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

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

Moderate: Pedophilia and Adult/minor relationship

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

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

Moderate: Suicide, Pedophilia, Mental illness, and Cursing

Minor: Child death and Toxic relationship

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review

dark emotional funny reflective slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Sexual content, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, and Homophobia