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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

60 reviews

cc24680's review

dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Medical content, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Cursing, Homophobia, Adult/minor relationship, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, and Car accident

satsumaorange's review

challenging emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

What a unique look into the mind of one of the most influential lesbian artists I know of! I found many of Bechdel's experiences profoundly relatable, and I actually teared up a few times. Essential reading for the sapphics with daddy issues out there (I see you <3)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Suicide, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Car accident, and Death

Moderate: Lesbophobia, Pedophilia, Grief, Domestic abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Homophobia, Misogyny, Mental illness, and Infidelity

Minor: Body shaming, Outing, Cursing, Drug use, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

This is the Lesbian Daddy Issues book, so if that kind of thing is triggery, this isn't the book for you. There are also illustrations of (sometimes naked) dead bodies, and (thankfully unrelated) illustrations of sex. This isn't a book to read in public, probably.

vurren's review

challenging dark informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Death of parent, Death, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Sexism, Pedophilia, and Domestic abuse

Minor: Homophobia, Dysphoria, and Mental illness

barbarella85's review against another edition

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Homophobia, and Sexual content

Minor: Death of parent, Grief, and Mental illness

mm_bookclub's review

emotional funny lighthearted medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Mental illness, Homophobia, and Death of parent

annabunce's review

challenging dark emotional reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Pedophilia, Mental illness, Infidelity, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Child abuse and Domestic abuse

kaimetcalfe's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Suicide, Death, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Domestic abuse, Sexism, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Panic attacks/disorders, Lesbophobia, Homophobia, Violence, Sexual content, Alcohol, Biphobia, Bullying, and Drug use

Minor: Pedophilia, Stalking, Sexual violence, Physical abuse, and Alcoholism

tiernanhunter's review against another edition

dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, Car accident, Suicide, Grief, and Mental illness

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Homophobia, and Physical abuse

myk_yeah's review

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

This was amazing, wow. You follow Allison through her childhood and learn about her relationships with her family members and see her grow into an adult who explores queerness and grief as part of her story. The story primarily focuses on her relationship with her dad. Ways it was difficult as a child, how she grows to try and understand him and her feelings towards him as an adult, the ways in which they mirror each other.
The comic was so engrossing and strong. I was so moved and touched by this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual assault, Child abuse, Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, and Mental illness

Minor: Body horror

dee_dreams's review

challenging reflective slow-paced

5.0

The complexity of the narrative and the breadth of topics that Bechdel breaches in her biography is truly astounding.  She demonstrates what my creative nonfiction writing professor meant when she said, "It's a paradox, but being more specific and more personal can help readers relate to your story more."

It is a graphic novel – wonderfully illustrated – but a challenging read due not only to the subject matter, but the allusions and analysis of existing literature.

Fun Home helps you understand not only what it is like to be Alison Bechdel, it reminds you that everybody else is living a reality with as much complication, personal meanings, quirks, desires, and traumas as your own. i.e., "sonder."

"The purpose of poetry is to remind us / how difficult it is to remain just one person" - Czesław Miłosz

Bechdel's frankness, courage, and creativity in telling her story her way is nothing short of inspiring.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Mental illness, Sexual harassment, and Sexual assault