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jmarob's review
4.0
Moderate: Death, Homophobia, Death of parent, Mental illness, Sexual content, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, and Grief
Minor: Mental illness, Suicide, Car accident, Panic attacks/disorders, and Toxic relationship
rhubarbpi3's review
4.5
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Infidelity, Death, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, and Child abuse
grem_ler's review
3.75
Graphic: Death and Adult/minor relationship
Moderate: Infidelity, Child abuse, Homophobia, Blood, Dysphoria, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Car accident, Death of parent, and Sexual content
joensign's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Pedophilia, Child abuse, Car accident, Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Suicide, and Death of parent
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
jamieruwen's review
5.0
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
4.0
Moderate: Death, Car accident, Dysphoria, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Alcohol, Homophobia, Death of parent, Domestic abuse, and Suicide
haileyhardcover's review
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Body horror, Death, Death of parent, Suicide, and Suicide attempt
Moderate: Medical content, Child death, Gore, Grief, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Car accident, Homophobia, Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Medical trauma, and Panic attacks/disorders
Minor: Sexual assault and Pedophilia
avidales's review
5.0
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