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Title Fun home : a family tragicomic / Alison Bechdel.
Publication Info. Boston. : Houghton Mifflin, c2006.

Location Call No. Status Notes
 Purdy-Kresge Library Ramsey Collection  17174    LIB USE ONLY
Description 232 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents Old father, old artificer -- A happy death -- That old catastrophe -- In the shadow of young girls in flower -- The canary-colored caravan of death -- The ideal husband -- The antihero's journey.
Summary 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.
Subject Bechdel, Alison, 1960- -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Genre Graphic novels.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Added Title Eloise Ramsey Collection of Literature for Young People
Peter D. Sieruta Collection.
Related To Online version: Bechdel, Alison, 1960- Fun home. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2006 (OCoLC)654847254
ISBN 9780618477944
0618477942
9780618871711 (Mariner Books pbk.)
0618871713 (Mariner Books pbk.)
OCLC # 62127870
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