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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

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/18/books/review/18wilsey.html
http://www.hmhco.com/shop/books/Fun-Home/9780618871711#ProductInfo

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An afternoon in her grandmother’s parlour in 1990’s Tehran sees the young Marjane listening in to the important women in her life discuss life, love, marriage and of course sex. This bittersweet graphic novel memoir is a humorous, poignant telling of tales and sharing of secrets that reveal an inner view of women’s lives in Iranian society. Illustrated by the author in a striking b&w cartoon style, this at times bawdy tale from the life of the best-selling author Marjane Satrapi is an enjoyable reminiscence and reflection on life’s experience that women everywhere will identify with at times, lament at others and yet definitely raise a hearty smile at.
Satrapi, Marjane. Embroideries, New York : London : Jonathan Cape, 2008.
City of Sydney libraries: 305.40955 SATR

from the film persepolis, too good to not include!

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marjane-satrapi/embroideries/ 

http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/160889/embroideries-by-marjane-satrapi/