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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Fun Home, a graphic novel penned and illustrated by Alison Bechdel, is both comical and tragic. Recommended reading would be Adrielle Mitchell's “Spectral Memory, Sexuality and Inversion: An Anthological Study of Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. Although Bechdel's name is familiar to me, I must admit that this is the first work of hers I've seen. This novel expertly shows how comics . In anticipation of Alison Bechdel's forthcoming graphic novel, Are You My Mother?: A Comic Drama, I recently read her award-winning 2006 release, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. It is about her being raised in Pennsylvania and her father's suicide as well as about her realizing she is a lesbian and coming out to her family. It is an autobiography with elements reminiscent of both Foxtrot and Six Feet Under (I know; how is that possible?). Take Alison Bechdel's graphic novel “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic,” which dedicates seven panels to cicadas. Alison Bechdel's Fun Home is one such example of a graphic novel making use of comics as a means of opening a discourse about the scars family members leave on their children and finding some form of closure through sharing these stories with others. Fun Home is the autobiographical graphic novel written by Alison Bechdel. We were long overdue to read Fun Home by Alison Bechdel.