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Fun Home: Familiedrama by Alison Bechdel

154 reviews

thesuperkim's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Alcohol, Lesbophobia, and Infidelity

Minor: Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Homophobia, and Body horror

mlovesbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Suicide, and Homophobia

steveatwaywords's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

When Bechdel's graphic memoir tips its hand around its major secret in the first chapter, I wondered how she would spend the next six. She does not disappoint.

As she reflects on memories uncertain, limited omniscience, her own growing identity and how it biases her narrative agenda, challenges nostalgia and resolves/fails-to-resolve relationships (including with herself), and entangles all of it in thick and layered parallels to the literature she knows and will know, we find that Fun Home is about something far richer and more important than its mere family plot.  

This is worth the read to settle in to: I appreciated the genre which comes from her own growing artistic skill, her takes on her readings, and how polarizing ideologies somehow might fuse in unlikely places. The only reason I do not give it 5 stars is that once met, I wishes to stay there longer, that references to other complications and nuance might have been explored still more. She is certainly capable of doing it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, and Grief

Moderate: Homophobia and Sexual content

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, and Infidelity

Illustrations of sexual situations are at times fairly graphic. Otherwise, the content warnings are verbal reckonings in memory; nearly all propel the major plot of the memoir.

skudiklier's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

I read this much more quickly and easily than I thought I would; I read Are You My Mother? a few years ago, and though I liked it a lot, I think it was denser, or slower, for me at least. Maybe I'll reread it now that I have the context of this book too. 

I don't really have a lot to say about this book, except that I liked it and would recommend it. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual content and Pedophilia

literaryinluv's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.75

You can't really put a rating on someone's life or perspective of their life. But you can on the execution. This memoir is littered with literary references, sometimes to a fault, but I enjoyed most of them anyway. However, it also got a bit convoluted due to this. Overall, though, I enjoyed it, and I believe the rating may be higher if I read it a second time in the future.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Death

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Car accident, and Suicide

Minor: Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Alcohol, Homophobia, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Sexual content, and Biphobia

kcbatts's review against another edition

emotional fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Suicide

Moderate: Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, and Homophobia

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

wrenny03's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

A gripping memoir told with a wonderful mix of humour and sincerity 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide

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

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