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.

Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. 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. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form.

This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. Publication date 2006 Topics Bechdel, Alison, 1960- Childhood and youth - Comic books, strips, etc, Bechdel, Alison, 1960-, Bechdel, Alison, 1960-, Bechdel, Alison 1960-, Bechdel, Alison, 1960- tecknade serier, Bechdel, Alison, 1960- Comic books, strips, etc, Mishnah Avot, Cartoonists - Family relationships - United States - Comic books, strips, etc, Homosexuality - United States - Comic books, strips, etc, Closeted gays - United States - Comic books, strips, etc, Families - United States - Comic books, strips, etc, Fathers and daughters - United States - Comic books, strips, etc, Family Relations, Homosexuality, 18.06 Anglo-American literature, 21.39 graphic arts: other, SOCIAL SCIENCE - Lesbian Studies, Homosexuality, Fathers and daughters, Families, Closeted gays, Cartoonists, Tochter, Comiczeichnerin, Serietecknare - Förenta staterna, Cartoonists - Comic books, strips, etc, Comic books, strips, etc, United States Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin Collection inlibrary printdisabled bplhoughton bostonpubliclibrary americana Digitizing sponsor Boston Public Library Contributor Boston Public Library Language English

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