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Alison Bechdel grew up in small town Beech Creek Pennsylvania in the 70’s in the ‘Fun Home’, the nickname for the family funeral parlour business. This funny, contemplative memoir is made more accessible by the minimally coloured, intimate illustrations. Her narration chronicles the literary obsessions that are the main medium of communication between herself & her distant father. The secrets and artifice maintained by her father, & the flight to new liberties and social consciousness available to Alison, fill this multi award winning graphic novel with her personal struggle & unresolved demons in this sometimes dark yet rewarding family portrait.

Bechdel, Alison. Fun home : A family tragicomic,  Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2006.

City of Sydney library : GN BECH

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