![]() ![]() ![]() The backdrop sets the book's tone of black humour. ![]() Had she known, she says, she might have felt inhibited about telling the story of her father - a closeted gay man whose suppression of his sexuality brought chaos to his family - and of her own coming-out as a lesbian, weeks before his death.īruce Bechdel's other undertaking was undertaking: "Fun Home" is a reference to the grimly comical name the family bestowed on the funeral home of which he was a director. If you cling to the notion that the comic-book format is still the exclusive preserve of superheroes and goofy jokes, you may find your perspectives violently shifted by Bechdel's account of her dysfunctional family, which has made it to the New York Times best-seller list and has just been published in the UK, bringing its author a level of public exposure for which she was entirely unprepared. "But would an ideal husband and father have sex with teenage boys?" "He appeared to be an ideal husband and father," Bechdel, a graphic artist, observes in her new memoir of childhood, Fun Home. Or at least she thinks he did: for Bruce Bechdel, obfuscating the truth was a lifelong undertaking, which made the ambiguity of his death seem somehow fitting. When Alison Bechdel's father was 44, two years younger than she is now, he killed himself by stepping into the path of an oncoming truck, not far from their home in small-town Pennsylvania. ![]()
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