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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

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If you only know Alison Bechdel from The Bechdel Test, let us introduce you to her graphic memoir. If you're looking for a great read about family secrets, let us introduce you to her graphic memoir.

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ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year • National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist

Winner of the Stonewall Book Award • Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award

Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling literary 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 A...

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