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A review by thelizabeth
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
3.0
Chris bought this last year and when we were moving he put it in the to-Strand pile, from which I rescued it. Amy loves this book! I said. You can't sell books Amy loves til I read them!
It was an interesting way to read it, doing the detective work the whole time of why Amy loves this book and Chris disliked this book. I thought it was very nice. In the memoir comic genre, it's a smart one. I liked the thoughtful threads of symbolism and memory. Those are good ingredients in stories.
Early on, I wondered if it might be that someone might need to have shared a complicated childhood to attach to the narration of the book. But that's dumb. What's ultimately relatable is not the discomfort but what I think is a quite universal intrigue for one's parents. How did they happen?
That question's powerful enough to draw me through a book about it, so that's good. It's also a really caring look back for the author at herself, and that's meaningful too. And instead of sending it off to the Strand I gave the book to my little sister to read the next day I saw her.
It was an interesting way to read it, doing the detective work the whole time of why Amy loves this book and Chris disliked this book. I thought it was very nice. In the memoir comic genre, it's a smart one. I liked the thoughtful threads of symbolism and memory. Those are good ingredients in stories.
Early on, I wondered if it might be that someone might need to have shared a complicated childhood to attach to the narration of the book. But that's dumb. What's ultimately relatable is not the discomfort but what I think is a quite universal intrigue for one's parents. How did they happen?
That question's powerful enough to draw me through a book about it, so that's good. It's also a really caring look back for the author at herself, and that's meaningful too. And instead of sending it off to the Strand I gave the book to my little sister to read the next day I saw her.