A review by suprconman99
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

A harrowing, at times devastating memoir that is deftly propelled by Bechdel’s literary wit. Her ability to find the universality in a story not everyone will immediately relate to is magic, and her willingness to excise EVERY shadowy corner of her childhood is both painful and courageous. A moving, compassionate reflection on Bechdel’s deeply flawed, haunted father, and on the relationships between parents and children more broadly — the sometimes unnerving, sometimes edifying ways in which we come to understand each other, not in terms of parent-child, but as people.
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