@article{327879,
      recid = {327879},
      author = {Bechdel, Alison,},
      title = {Fun home : a family tragicomic /},
      publisher = {Houghton Mifflin,},
      address = {Boston :},
      pages = {232 p. :},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {This book takes its place alongside the unnerving,  memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten  Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale  perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's  father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive  restorer of the family's Victorian house, 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 male  students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is  alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn  into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet,  apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the  family-owned 'fun home,' as Alison and her brothers call  it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression  through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as  homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is  swift, graphic, and redemptive.--From publisher  description.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/327879},
}