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roseswithoutthorns's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Homophobia and Child abuse
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Suicide
meg_thebrave's review
4.5
Minor: Sexual content, Suicide, Homophobia, and Death of parent
meecespieces's review
5.0
Graphic: Death, Homophobia, Suicide, and Death of parent
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Domestic abuse
savshelfinger's review
5.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Death, and Suicide
Minor: Homophobia
elm2091's review
4.75
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Death of parent, Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Homophobia
pandorasirens's review
5.0
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Grief
Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, Infidelity, Homophobia, and Adult/minor relationship
Minor: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Pedophilia
blackberryjambaby's review
4.0
Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Homophobia, Infidelity, Outing, Suicide, Car accident, Pedophilia, and Racial slurs
Moderate: Blood, Child abuse, Grief, Medical content, Alcohol, Emotional abuse, and Gore
gussurireads's review against another edition
5.0
So I went in completely blind. Mind you, I am fan of graphic novels. I don't read a lot of memoirs, though. But Alison Bechdel writes and draws a compelling, honest and yes, at times pretentious, story of her bizarre family, drawing parallels between herself, an out and proud lesbian, to her closeted, deeply repressed father.
It's not the kind of graphic novel that you breeze through in a couple of hours. It took me a few days of carefully going through this and still there's so many references that eluded me, what with me not being an English major or a very cultured reader (I enjoy my fantasy, ok?)
Still, so much of Allison's story resonated with me, as most queer stories do. The act of discovering a new part of ourselves, coming to terms with it, rejoicing in this newfound identity, is quite possible the most universal queer experience of them all, and Bechdel is a master at embellishing her own experience. Like father, like daughter, indeed.
Moderate: Suicide, Sexual content, Grief, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Car accident
Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Homophobia
becksusername's review
4.0
Moderate: Death, Car accident, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Alcohol, Homophobia, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Suicide
smoldragon22's review
5.0
Moderate: Grief, Homophobia, Lesbophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, and Death