Una familia tragicomica, el exitoso relato de maduracion de Alison Bechdel, que ha sido calificado de proeza de retrato familiar y de raro y original ejemplo de por que las novelas graficas han dado que hablar en la literatura americana .

Fun Home fue nombrado Mejor libro del ano por Time, The New York Times y People.

El padre de Alison es un profesor de ingles obsesionado por restaurar con antiguedades su casa victoriana y es dueno de una vieja funeraria. En consonancia con la frialdad de su entorno, es un padre distante y tiranico que mantiene en secreto su verdadera inclinacion sexual. A traves de esta narrativa grafica, comica y desoladora, nos acercamos a los complejos de Alison, que lucha en soledad por encontrar su lugar en el mundo y redimir su precaria relacion familiar.

La critica ha opinado:

Fun Home debe ser el trabajo mas ingeniosamente elaborado y un ejemplo de prolija elocuencia biografica […] una obra pionera del genero -The New York Times

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER

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 * Nominated for the GLAAD Media Award

Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling 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 Alison and her family referred to as the Fun Home. It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

In her hands, personal history becomes a work of amazing subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.