Fun Home

DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this. 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 the family babysitter. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive. Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew. 'A groundbreaking masterpiece' The Independent 'A finely woven blend of yearning and euphoric fantasy' Evening Standard **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN 'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical. 'A sapphic graphic treat' The Times A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this. 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 the family babysitter. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive. Interweaving between childhood memories, college life and present day, and through narrative that is equally heartbreaking and fiercely funny, Alison looks back on her complex relationship with her father and finds they had more in common than she ever knew. 'A groundbreaking masterpiece' The Independent 'A finely woven blend of yearning and euphoric fantasy' Evening Standard **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and funny, readers are drawn into a daughters complex yearning for her father. Apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books.

Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and funny, readers are drawn into a daughters complex yearning for her father. Apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books.

Alison Bechdel, skaberen af bechdel-testen, fortæller i "Fun Home" den bevægende og sort humoristiske sande historie om sit eget tragikomiske forhold til sin far. Alisons far, Bruce, er ikke en helt gennemsnitlig fjern far. Han arbejder som engelsklærer på et gymnasie, men han har også fulgt familietraditionen og er blevet bedemand. Resten af sin tid bruger han på at sætte familiens bevaringsværdige victorianske hus i stand. Under overfladen ulmer dog et væld af hemmeligheder. Ikke blot er Bruce i virkeligheden homoseksuel og befinder sig dybt inde i skabet, han har også haft affærer med sine mandlige elever og familiens babysitter. Da Alison som teenager springer ud som lesbisk, får det dysfunktionelle far-datter forhold en helt ny dimension. "Fun Home" er en biografisk graphic novel skrevet og tegnet af Alison Bechdel, der bl.a. er gjort til basis for en Tony-vindende musical på Broadway.

Alison Bechdel, skaberen af bechdel-testen, fortæller i "Fun Home" den bevægende og sort humoristiske sande historie om sit eget tragikomiske forhold til sin far. Alisons far, Bruce, er ikke en helt gennemsnitlig fjern far. Han arbejder som engelsklærer på et gymnasie, men han har også fulgt familietraditionen og er blevet bedemand. Resten af sin tid bruger han på at sætte familiens bevaringsværdige victorianske hus i stand. Under overfladen ulmer dog et væld af hemmeligheder. Ikke blot er Bruce i virkeligheden homoseksuel og befinder sig dybt inde i skabet, han har også haft affærer med sine mandlige elever og familiens babysitter. Da Alison som teenager springer ud som lesbisk, får det dysfunktionelle far-datter forhold en helt ny dimension. "Fun Home" er en biografisk graphic novel skrevet og tegnet af Alison Bechdel, der bl.a. er gjort til basis for en Tony-vindende musical på Broadway.