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Review: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic📚 Hello Book Friends! The Pooches and Pages Book Club read FUN HOME: A FAMILY TRAGICOMIC by Alison Bechdel this month. This is not the first time I read a graphic novel, but it is the graphic memoir I read. I love the illustrations; they are engaging and communicate well the feel of the narration. The memoir was interesting, if not repetitive. It felt like the author was trying to get a point across and went at it from all angles. The tragic loss of her father has impacted her tremendously. I relate to that as I lost my father to Covid last December and did not have a chance to say goodbye. This can be traumatic.

On the other hand, I would have liked the author to expand more on her “coming out”. It felt like she discovered, at a moment in time, that she was a lesbian and that this was not a lifelong discovery. This is not how most of my LGBTQ2+ friends describe themselves. I am also not certain why she titled the book “Fun Home” besides it was the name they gave her father’s unusual workplace. The correlation was not there for me. This book was just ok for me.

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