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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

150 reviews

courn's review

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

joensign's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, and Death of parent

meecespieces's review

dark emotional medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Domestic abuse

savshelfinger's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

Incredibly moving memoir. MMC (made me cry)

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: 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

blackberryjambaby's review

emotional informative mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

challenging emotional funny medium-paced

5.0

I was drawn to this because Bechdel is famous for, well, the Bechdel test, and as a queer woman who loves stories centered on women and their relationships with other women, that test is very important to me.

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. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Sexual content, Grief, Domestic abuse, Death of parent, and Car accident

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Homophobia

ehwesson's review

dark emotional sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

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.

becksusername's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Car accident, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Alcohol, Homophobia, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Suicide