Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
- ISBN-10
- 0618871713
- ISBN-13
- 9780618871711
- Series
- Fun Home
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 248
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Alison Bechdel
Description
A memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father--a funeral home director, high school English teacher, and closeted homosexual.
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