Alison Bechdel: Fun Home : A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel, familiar from her Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip, has kept a journal since she was ten. She came out in college to her parents as a lesbian, only to learn that her father was gay, had always been. Few weeks later, he was dead. It's quite a mess, to be honest, but learning the truth certainly shed some light on the emotional coldness of the Bechdel home.

Fun Home is an interesting story of two interesting lead characters, Alison and her father, and the way Alison tries to sort out her feelings after learning the truth about her father. It's a rich journey through the family history, looking back at what happened with new perspective, new light. It's touching, funny, intellectual and honest - indeed, it has most characteristics one would expect from an excellent autobiography. [ Fun Home at Amazon.co.uk ] [ Fun Home at LibraryThing ]