num_pages: 232
description: Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, 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 his 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 adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
language: English
title: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
titlecomplete: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
genres: Biography, Graphic Novels Comics, LGBT, Queer, Comics, Adult, Nonfiction, Memoir, Graphic Novels, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 173491
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: Houghton Mifflin Company