num_pages: 235
description: Fun Home is a fresh and brilliantly told memoir marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst and great books. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form.Meet Alison's father, obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, funeral director, high school English teacher, icily distant parent and closeted homosexual, who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a babysitter. Through a narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
language: English
title: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
titlecomplete: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
genres: Biography, Queer, Graphic Novels, LGBT, Memoir, Nonfiction, Adult, Biography Memoir, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics
ratings_count: 173558
places: Pennsylvania
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Lambda Literary Award
category: Lesbian Memoir/Biography, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards
category: Best Reality-Based Work, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: The Publishing Triangle Award
category: The Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction
publisher: Jonathan Cape