Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

$15.19

Paperback
Publish Date: June 2007
Language: English
EAN: 9780618871711

Overview

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist
Winner of the Stonewall Book Award Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award
Nominated for the
GLAAD Media Award
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.

Details

Pages: 240
Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 in
ISBN: 0618871713

Awards

2009 Green Mountain Book Award - Nominee (Grades 9-12)