![]() Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. ![]() If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this. The graphic novel is an exploration of memory and an attempt to make sense and connect past experiences the stage production brings the characters and events to bright. Despite both being the same story, the two forms bring it to life very differently. ![]() DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical.Ī moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. Both the graphic novel and Young Vic production of Fun Home are excellent. ![]()
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