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4.13 AVERAGE
4.13 AVERAGE
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Just okay... I much preferred the musical. The novel was hard to follow.
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A friend of mine whose taste I trust above almost anyone else's got me this for my birthday, and needless to say I was not let down. Fun Home, which may at first appear to be full of literary pretension, exists at that corner between archetype and reality where our parents so often appear to be when we are young, a transcendental sense of authority that is slowly worn away as we age and greater appreciate the flaws of our parents. Fun Home is written not chronologically but as a series of stories, each working their way through a set of shared themes as the narrator pieces together who her father was to her and how she narrativizes his sexuality and his impact on her life. It's written as it might have been thought, honestly, and though the jumps are frequent the story never loses its thread (this is an accomplishment in and of itself)!
The occasional art shifts to realism and the gripping honesty of the anecdotes are just two more of the things I really adored about this one. I didn't realize until I reached the "I think" passages that I'd read excerpts of Fun Home before, but those are a highlight. As is the beginning, with its descriptions of the home itself-- the space is gorgeous and well inhabited, despite the sparseness of the comic style and the lack of color. Fun Home is... well, a home.
A quick side note:
I do think that the father's interest in specifically YOUNGER men went less addressed than it should have, save for a comment or two. There is a distinct difference between Allison's relationships with people her age and her father's more predatory endeavors that she doesn't emphasize.
A friend of mine whose taste I trust above almost anyone else's got me this for my birthday, and needless to say I was not let down. Fun Home, which may at first appear to be full of literary pretension, exists at that corner between archetype and reality where our parents so often appear to be when we are young, a transcendental sense of authority that is slowly worn away as we age and greater appreciate the flaws of our parents. Fun Home is written not chronologically but as a series of stories, each working their way through a set of shared themes as the narrator pieces together who her father was to her and how she narrativizes his sexuality and his impact on her life. It's written as it might have been thought, honestly, and though the jumps are frequent the story never loses its thread (this is an accomplishment in and of itself)!
The occasional art shifts to realism and the gripping honesty of the anecdotes are just two more of the things I really adored about this one. I didn't realize until I reached the "I think" passages that I'd read excerpts of Fun Home before, but those are a highlight. As is the beginning, with its descriptions of the home itself-- the space is gorgeous and well inhabited, despite the sparseness of the comic style and the lack of color. Fun Home is... well, a home.
A quick side note:
I do think that the father's interest in specifically YOUNGER men went less addressed than it should have, save for a comment or two. There is a distinct difference between Allison's relationships with people her age and her father's more predatory endeavors that she doesn't emphasize.
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
I read Are You My Mother? first and i enormously related and was gripped by that book. So i went back in time and read this, the first book about her father. I liked it too, i related less. Her peculiarly honest recollection of herself and her life is special. Seeing queer ancestors and the gaps in our history that never got told.
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I picked this up primarily because I’m intentionally trying to read books that are contested or currently being banned in libraries across the country.
No book should be banned in my opinion. This book is primarily contested due to “pornographic illustrations” which I disagree with. I don’t think any of the illustrations are pornographic in nature. But after reading it I do think the content itself is more suited for a high schooler or older. Because a lot of the subject matter is quite mature. It’s not PG13 material for sure. That said, in my opinion, instead of trying to get books banned, parents should read these books along with their children and provide appropriate guidance as they read the book.
I don’t typically read graphic novels but do think this one was very well done.
No book should be banned in my opinion. This book is primarily contested due to “pornographic illustrations” which I disagree with. I don’t think any of the illustrations are pornographic in nature. But after reading it I do think the content itself is more suited for a high schooler or older. Because a lot of the subject matter is quite mature. It’s not PG13 material for sure. That said, in my opinion, instead of trying to get books banned, parents should read these books along with their children and provide appropriate guidance as they read the book.
I don’t typically read graphic novels but do think this one was very well done.