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• Title:Fun home : a family tragicomic / Alison Bechdel.
  
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• Author/Creator:Bechdel, Alison, 1960-
  
• Published/Created:Boston : Houghton Mifflin 2007, ©2006.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN6727.B3757 Z46 2006a
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PN6727.B3757 Z46 2007b
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Bechdel, Alison, 1960---Comic books, strips, etc.
  Cartoonists--United States--Comic books, strips, etc.
  
• Medical Subjects: Bechdel, Alison, 1960-
  Family Relations.
  Homosexuality.
  
• Genre/Form:Graphic novels.
  Comics (Graphic works)
  Autobiographies.
  
• Edition:1st Mariner Books ed.
  
• Description:232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm.
  
• Summary: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.
  
• Notes:"A Mariner book."
  
• ISBN:9780618871711 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Old father, old artificer
  A happy death
  That old catastrophe
  In the shadow of young girls in flower
  The canary-colored caravan of death
  The ideal husband
  The antihero's journey.