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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

116 reviews

aliensmileyface's review against another edition

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, and Suicide

Moderate: Pedophilia

annabunce's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

jonmayb's review against another edition

emotional reflective slow-paced

1.0

Fun Home told the story of Alison Bechdel's childhood and early adulthood. The structure is non-linear, and many of the events Bechdel recounts are either concretely or loosely tied to either her coming out or two her father's suspected suicide.
Nonetheless, soon after Alison comes out to her parents, she learns that her own father was also queer, but that he slept with young boys. Her father was a pedophile. He is hit by a truck and passes away soon after this is revealed to he. All of these particular details are first revealed early on in the story, and the rest of the story jumps around in recounting events Bechdel loosely correlates with them. Much of the story seems to be spent attempting to justify and rationalise her father's actions. Overall, this book was a pain in the ass to get through

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Content Warnings

Minor: Pedophilia, Sexism, Suicide, and Grief

teddylouise00's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia and Death of parent

kaimetcalfe's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

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

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

readwithbells's review against another edition

3.75

Oof. A challenging meditation on how Bechdel’s dad overshadowed every aspect of her life and her complicated relationship with him both in spite of and because of what he has done. Can’t say it was enjoyable but it was beautifully done. 

ok but did he actually kill himself?? I’m 50/50 on it tbh. Also wtf is with the child pedophilia. Yikes.

 

Read for Queer Writing. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Pedophilia, and Death of parent

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: Homophobia, Sexism, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Pedophilia and Sexual content

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 and Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

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