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Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic
Fun Home A Family Tragicomic
Author: Alison Bechdel
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 »
ISBN-13: 9780618477944
ISBN-10: 0618477942
Publication Date: 6/8/2006
Pages: 240
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4.2 stars, based on 38 ratings
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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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.
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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.
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Gave it the ole Nancy Pearl test - first 50 pages - it flunked. I didn't bother reading any farther.

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