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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

17 reviews

lillypad827's review

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

2.5

Well I’m definitely in the minority of readers here who did not enjoy this book. It was certainly well written, but sometimes difficult to follow with all the interjections of literary books that I know nothing about. I did not find this funny at all, did not laugh once. Unsure why it’s even called “Fun Home” as the funeral home is only mentioned a few times. Memoirs are tricky for me - I like them to be in some sort of chronological order - and this one did not do that in the slightest. It jumped all over and I didn’t know where we were sometimes. Also, sure let’s just gloss over the fact that the Dad preyed on minors and also physically abused his children. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Sexual content, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Suicide, and Child abuse

elm2091's review

challenging emotional slow-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death, Lesbophobia, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, Death of parent, Child abuse, Pedophilia, and Homophobia

pandorasirens's review

dark emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Death of parent, and Grief

Moderate: Mental illness, Suicide, Infidelity, Homophobia, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, and Pedophilia

jamieruwen's review

emotional funny reflective medium-paced

5.0

I mean, you don't need to tell me you that Fun Home is an outstanding piece of literature. It's a remarkable comic-memoir, a coming of age as much as it is a grief novel as much as it is a reconciliation with the father Alison Bechdel knew as a child and the man he turned out to be, as it is a reconciliation of her self with her father's self. Some panels nearly moved me to tears because they were so brilliantly composed (Alison and her father standing in front of the mirror before the wedding!). This might become one of those books that I'll reread every year, it's probably  one of those where you find something new in it every time you read it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Infidelity, Death of parent, Physical abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

Graphic: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Mentioned: Child Sexual Abuse. Alison's father has "relationships" with teenagers and was sexually abused himself. However none of the affected characters express any negative feelings towards those experiences.

avidales's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Grief, Homophobia, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Infidelity, Lesbophobia, Car accident, Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Physical abuse

astrangewind's review

dark hopeful reflective fast-paced

4.75

When I read this book for the first time, I was 18, in my second semester of college. At that time, I hadn't come out yet - not even to myself. So when I read Fun Home back then, I thought it was kind of stupid. Now, nearly 8 years later, I find Fun Home to be not only important but necessary. Bechdel, by telling her own complicated story with her father, validates the complex feelings queer people often have about themselves and their relationships with others. The moment where she sees a butch truck driver for the first time resonates with how I felt wearing jeans for the first time in years - the realization that yes, there is an option. It inspires joy in the messiness of the queer experience, joy in loving and being loved, joy in life going on, despite the complexity. The graphic format suits Bechdel's writing style, and this story, better than I had thought; the panels link together effortlessly, and contribute their own tune to the written words describing them. It reads like a diary entry, itself messy and confused and unsure, much like Bechdel's childhood entries. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pedophilia, Gore, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide and Physical abuse

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

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

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