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Fun Home: Familiedrama by Alison Bechdel

154 reviews

dandeliongirl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.0

“Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”
I don’t usually like or read graphic novels, but this books is an exception. What a unique way to write a memoir. The way Bechdel reflects on how she connects her queerness with her father’s in the last chapter is particularly poignant.

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Content Warnings

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

kaimetcalfe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Death, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Violence, Sexual content, Alcohol, Biphobia, Bullying, and Drug use

Minor: Pedophilia, Stalking, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, and Alcoholism

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Car accident, Suicide, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Physical abuse

krivas91's review against another edition

reflective slow-paced

3.5

3.5 stars? I always find it weird rating an author’s autobiographical content…but there’s still things that can be said. I appreciate the author’s extreme openness with her readers, and found it just really interesting to view her experience coming out as a lesbian while becoming aware of her father’s sexual activities and advances toward young men (teenagers), and figuring herself out as a child of two parents who did not outwardly/visibly show her love and affection hardly ever. 

However, there were so many times that the text was just so heavy (in the emotional sense, but also the literal-literature sense), and I found myself asking if we were even intended to read the images when she would picture mostly illegible letters by her father. 

Also, one review here noted the “references to classic literature that are carefully, artfully implemented and never daunting,” but I’d have to disagree; I understand that she connected to her father through literature and that’s why she included so much of it in her recollection, but I do think I felt like I was really missing something when I didn’t understand references or a few high-vocabulary words. I don’t think she could have written her way totally around that (or that she should have), but I do fear that some readers who could really use exposure to the coming out + family relationships content might be turned off of this book earlier on because of the dense presence of classic literature references.

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Content Warnings

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

hendrixpants's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Death

Moderate: Homophobia

blake_lavanchy's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

A beautiful book—but it genuinely felt like swallowing a blackhole. It saw right through me, and so after finishing it, I felt strangely hollow, like the protective layer and cynicism and I keep around me was stripped away. It felt like waking up, alone, and naked, and realizing the last 3 years of my life had been a dream. I can't say it was a pleasurable read, but it moved things within me, at times violently, and that is all I ever really want from a book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide and Homophobia

Moderate: Mental illness

carmentxx's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

the narrative of this graphic novel really must be admired. truly an excellent way of nuancing the difficulty of an abusive parent, a child’s love and also the retrospective understanding. i found bechdel’s narration really fascinating, she understates the potency of her story and how it relates to queer kinship in a beautiful way. i’m honestly shocked at how they managed to turn this into a musical, but it is an excellent read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Homophobia, and Death of parent

waytoomanybooks's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

There's nothing I can say about Fun Home that hasn't already been said by better, smarter people with better, smarter vocabulary, so I'll just say that I found this book deeply relatable, deeply sad, and deeply hopeful. It's a gorgeous book with gorgeous prose and gorgeous illustrations. I highly recommend it, but it's not for the faint of heart. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Grief, Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, Death, Death of parent, Mental illness, Car accident, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Suicide attempt, and Suicide

riverlasol's review against another edition

challenging reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

This book was not what I thought it would be. I decided to read it because I wanted to listen to the fun home musical. I also thought would be worthwhile to read  a somewhat famous graphic novel about growing up queer in what I believe was the 70s. this was not a mere memoir, however. It went into the topics of mental health, neuro divergence, family, queerness, fashion and so much more. Although this is not my usual genre, I am very glad that I read it. I would highly recommend if you’re looking for a poignant graphic novel. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Homophobia

Minor: Suicide

aleksanski's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Death of parent, and Mental illness