![]() “Alison Bechdel – she’s one of the best, one to watch out for." -Harvey Pekar shares as much in spirit with.other contemporary memoirists of considerable literary accomplishment." Kirkus Reviews, Starred " hits notes that resemble Jeanette Winterson at her best.She's made a story that's quiet dignified." Publishers Weekly, Starred ![]() "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic - and redemptive. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. ![]() Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. ![]() Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. ![]()
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