Alison Bechdel’s
groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught
relationship with her late father.
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.
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.
