Huan le zhi jia : : yi Chang jia Ting bei xi ju = Fun Home : a Family Tragicomic
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Call Number: World-CHI Graphic-Novel
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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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.
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PUBLISHED
880-03 Taibei Xian Xindian Shi : Fa xing Yuan zu wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si, 2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 232 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm.
Format: Graphic Novel
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9789866973727
9866973727
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Ziyu.
子玉.
SUBJECTS
Bechdel, Alison, -- 1960- -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Cartoonists -- United States -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Homosexuality -- Comic books, strips, etc.
Chinese language materials -- Traditional characters.
Graphic novels.