{"product_id":"fun-home-a-family-tragicomic-1711","title":"Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTime Magazine #1 Book of the Year - National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Stonewall Book Award - Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling literary graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the \"Fun Home.\" It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, a unique coming-of-age story written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does a daughter resolve the legacy of mystery left by the man she called her father?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFamily Secrets: \u003c\/b\u003e Growing up in the family funeral home, nicknamed the \"Fun Home,\" was only the first layer of mystery in a household built on secrets.\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLGBTQ+ Coming of Age: \u003c\/b\u003e As Alison comes out as a lesbian in college, she makes a discovery about her father that forces her to re-examine her entire childhood.\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Complicated Father-Daughter Story: \u003c\/b\u003e A raw and honest exploration of a fraught relationship with a distant, exacting, and enigmatic father.\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLiterary Nonfiction: \u003c\/b\u003e A narrative woven with rich literary allusions and heartbreaking honesty that redefines what a graphic memoir can be.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlison Bechdel's \u003c\/strong\u003ecult following for her early comic strip \u003cem\u003eDykes to Watch Out For \u003c\/em\u003eexpanded wildly for her family memoirs, the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling and \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c\/em\u003e magazine #1 Book of the Year graphic memoir \u003cem\u003eFun Home, \u003c\/em\u003e adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and \u003cem\u003eAre You My Mother? \u003c\/em\u003eMost recently, \u003cem\u003eThe Secret to Superman Strength \u003c\/em\u003ewas named a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Best Graphic Novel of 2021. Bechdel has been named a MacArthur Fellow, among many other honors.","brand":"Alison Bechdel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67718949339421,"sku":"9780618871711","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9780618871711.jpg?v=1791564138","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/fun-home-a-family-tragicomic-1711","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}