FUN HOME A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC TP (MR) (Backorder, Allow 4-5 Weeks)

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Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking¸ bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. 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. In her hands¸ personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power¸ written with controlled force and enlivened with humor¸ rich literary allusion¸ and heartbreaking detail.