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dee_dreams's review against another edition
5.0
It is a graphic novel – wonderfully illustrated – but a challenging read due not only to the subject matter, but the allusions and analysis of existing literature.
Fun Home helps you understand not only what it is like to be Alison Bechdel, it reminds you that everybody else is living a reality with as much complication, personal meanings, quirks, desires, and traumas as your own. i.e., "sonder."
"The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person" - Czesław Miłosz
Bechdel's frankness, courage, and creativity in telling her story her way is nothing short of inspiring.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault
blake_lavanchy's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Suicide and Homophobia
Moderate: Mental illness
waytoomanybooks's review against another edition
4.0
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
4.0
Graphic: Mental illness and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Homophobia
Minor: Suicide
aleksanski's review against another edition
3.0
Minor: Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Death of parent, and Mental illness
maggiegirouard's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Suicide, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Death, and Death of parent
Moderate: Physical abuse, Alcohol, Car accident, Medical content, Infidelity, Violence, Mental illness, and Cursing
steveatwaywords's review against another edition
4.5
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.
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.readingrainbowroad's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Death of parent, Grief, Sexual content, Mental illness, and Suicide
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia
Minor: Sexual assault, War, and Alcohol
abbyj_04's review against another edition
4.5
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
m0_x13's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Death, Grief, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Death of parent, and Child abuse
Moderate: Self harm, Suicide, and Homophobia