{"product_id":"fun-home-a-family-tragicomic-paperback","title":"Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlison Bechdel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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 21\u003csup\u003eST\u003c\/sup\u003e 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\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling literary graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. \u003c\/b\u003e\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\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Bechdel\u003c\/b\u003e's cult following for her early comic strip \u003ci\u003eDykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/i\u003e expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the best-selling graphic memoir \u003ci\u003eFun Home\u003c\/i\u003e, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and \u003ci\u003eAre You My Mother?\u003c\/i\u003e Bechdel has been named a MacArthur Fellow and Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, among many other honors. Her new memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret to Superman Strength, \u003c\/i\u003eis forthcoming in 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Green Mountain Book Award (2009)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52912098312416,"sku":"9780618871711","price":21.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/5909\/4496\/files\/70Dw9mZrge9780618871711.webp?v=1781244212","url":"https:\/\/improvedinc.myshopify.com\/products\/fun-home-a-family-tragicomic-paperback","provider":"Improved Improper Input Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}