num_pages: 234
description: This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, 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 male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned 'fun home,' as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.--From publisher description.
language: English
title: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
titlecomplete: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
genres: Graphic Novels Comics, Graphic Novels, Queer, Biography, Memoir, Adult, Comics, LGBT, Biography Memoir, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 173533
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: Mariner