Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew.
When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, 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 his male students and the family babysitter. This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. Fun Home creator Alison Bechdel on turning a tragic childhood into a hit musical Comics and graphic novels The Guardian. DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.Ī moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father.
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