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A review by dandeliongirl
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
4.0
“Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.”
I don’t usually like or read graphic novels, but this books is an exception. What a unique way to write a memoir. The way Bechdel reflects on how she connects her queerness with her father’s in the last chapter is particularly poignant.
I don’t usually like or read graphic novels, but this books is an exception. What a unique way to write a memoir. The way Bechdel reflects on how she connects her queerness with her father’s in the last chapter is particularly poignant.
Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Death of parent, and Suicide