Fun home : a family tragicomic
(Comic)

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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
Status
Edmondson Pike - Adult Comic/Graphic
Graphic 741.56973 B391f
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Format
Comic
Physical Desc
232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
ISBN
9780618871711, 0618477942, 9780618477944, 0618871713, 9781417823147, 1417823143

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Description
This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned 'fun home, ' as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.--From publisher description.
Awards
American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (Style Guide)

Bechdel, A. (2006). Fun home: a family tragicomic. Houghton Mifflin.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 18th Edition (Style Guide)

Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. 2006. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Houghton Mifflin.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 18th Edition (Style Guide)

Bechdel, Alison, 1960-. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

UCL Harvard Citation (Style Guide)

Bechdel, A. (2006). Fun home: a family tragicomic. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (Style Guide)

Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

Note: Citations contain only title, author, edition, and publisher. Only UCL Harvard citations contain the year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy. Citation formats are based on standards as of May 2025.

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