Name: Fun Home
Rating: 4.075153374233129 (326 reviews)
ISBN: 9780618871711

Alison Bechdel

A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.

A Family Tragicomic

Fun Home

Lindo. Trágico, sentimental, cheio de nuances e lindo. A combinação de desenhos tão expressivos e uma história que é impossível de se esquecer, torna um assunto difícil ainda mais complexo de ser lido. Imaginei que passaria rápido, uma comic para distrair entre livros pesados (mesmo sabendo do peso que também traria), mas passou devagar e com um peso enorme no peito. Lindo. Custo fugir desse adjetivo, como obra, merece essa admiração e é simplesmente lindo. O final com o desenho do caminhão e dela se jogando nos braços do pai? Belíssimo, marcante. Os diferentes se jogar na vida ou da vida, lindo e cheio de paralelos perfeitamente amarrados, genial. 

Larissa Campos

In this groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir, Alison Bechdel charts her fraught relationship with her late father. In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail. Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the "Fun Home." It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

super cool but i would rather die than use it for my ib lit p2

charlowwe

Alison's father is a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. This work shows a daughter's complex yearning for her father.

Jennifer

This graphic memoir is unlike anything else I’ve read. It is entertaining (because of the pictures...and content...but pictures) and gripping with its unique tone. I wish there were more graphic memoirs like this. I now have a renewed determination to read Ulysses and the Odyssey to better understand this book but we’ll see how long that feeling lasts. 

An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian ho

A bit tedious, super straining to read, but very enlightening and raw 

Anna Cassmer Ling-Vannérus

I read this a few years ago and didn’t really have a deep enough understanding to fully grasp the meaning of this graphic novel. Reading it again, it was still complex and intellectual, but I think I was able to enjoy it a bit more now that I’ve aged some. I appreciate the dark humor and existentialism/self-discovery thread throughout. Still a lot of literary depth I couldn’t fully grasp with all of the references to classic books, but I still felt immersed and drawn in despite that.

Erin Goss

okay I had to think about this for awhile before writing a review, because I've never read anything like this before. It's very emotional and deeply sentimental in a way that's hard to ignore. I didn't really have any queer friends or do any of the radical lesbian reading or stuff she talked about when I was in college, and I can't help but feel like this would have really changed some things for me if I had read this sooner. I also missed a lot of the literary references she talks about, which is why it's not 5 stars, just because I'm missing part of it, but not a fault of the book, I'll just revisit this later if I ever read Ulysses or something. The rest of it feels too much to even try talking about, and almost too personal for me to be reading some of it in the first place, but I'm glad she did and I'm glad I read it, really meant a lot to me. 

Kaye Barnett

This book had a cool way of tacking really intense subject matter through a readable, enjoyable voice. Interesting layout/style, wasn’t quite as cohesive as other graphic novels due to the heavy narration, but I did love the accompanying images. Definitely the most engaging and creative memoir I have read. 

cedar winslow

rumbledethumps

This memoir can probably best be described as a spiral, where the story turns in on itself, then jumps back out to a previous point on the spiral, then turns back in towards the center. The narrative structure is so good, giving the reader glimpses of the future, then going back to the past, then winding back to the future with new knowledge about what brought us here, then ultimately tightening everything down to a conclusion.

Really great book. Great illustrations, great understanding of both storytelling and the medium of comics.

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Inkmelt

It's uncomfortably intimate and some thing's plain disturbing but I guess good art truly comforts the disturbed and disturbs the comfortable.

Emmm :p

It was quick to get through but all the Greek mythology bored me

Zoe Stricker

very beautifully done, such a complex story, sometimes i get irked by how pedantic Bechdel can be, but she's great nonetheless

Jeannette Ordas

I've been lax on the graphic novel trip this year, so this is the first one i've read in quite a while. After seeing a few pages of this graphic novel blown up in large format at the local art gallery, I put a library hold on this book immediately. Fun Home is a highly personal memoir not just about her relationship with her father but with sorting out family mysteries and the mysteries in her own life. This novel is filled with honesty, wit, literary allusions and beautifully drawn moments.

Fun Home A Family Tragicomic

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