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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
4.0
dark medium-paced

Easily one of the most linguistically challenging things I’ve ever read, the relentless references to Wilde and fitzgerald and Camus and Greek mythology suffocating in their abundance, a natural inheritance from her literature professor parents. In the end, this seductively tedious ritual seems to have achieved what Alison was never taught to do at the Fun(eral) home, to process and proclaim her emotions

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