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FUN HOME:
A FAMILY
TRAGICOMIC
Details Originally published Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (2006)
Publisher Jonathan Cape Writer Alison Bechdel Artist Alison Bechdel
Collected in Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Available digitally N/A

Alison Bechdel, famed for the creation of the

Bechdel Test within the pages of her acclaimed
Dykes To Watch Out For strip, hit the critical
MDFNSRWZLWKKHUŭUVWJUDSKLFPHPRLUFun Home.
Focusing on her childhood and relationship with
her father, this title has a real love of literature
which has greatly widened the memoirs appeal.
A seven-year labour of love, Bechdel explores
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sexual orientation and gender roles are of
particular importance, but the book also touches
on complexities of family life and the sensitive
subject of suicide.
Beautifully drawn scenes are replayed again
and again with deeper layers of meaning – the

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BECOMIN
recursion of the non-linear narrative is always

“F A S T clever rather than grating, as Bechdel struggles

to come to terms with her own sexual identity
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alongside revelations about her father. Infamous
in the US for attempted bannings due to the gay
CLASSIC” and sexual content, Fun Home is fast becoming a
modern classic nonetheless.

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