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Fun Home A Family Tragicomic Author: This breakout book by Alison Bechdel takes its place alongside the — unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten — Burroughs and Mary Karr. It"s a father-daughter tale pitch-perfectly — illustrated with Bechdel"s sweetly gothic drawings and—like Marjane — Satrapi"s Persepolis—a story exhilaratingly suited to the graphic... more »
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3 member(s) found this review helpful.
I can't speak highly enough of this book. If you like intelligent books, you need to read it. If you like graphic novels, you need to read it. Bechdel became my comic writing role model with this book, basically.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Truly a hauntingly dark comedy about the realizations we make about our parents and ourselves. What defines us may be only a shadow of what defined them.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Gave it the ole Nancy Pearl test - first 50 pages - it flunked. I didn't bother reading any farther.
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