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Fun Home

by Alison Bechdel

Fun Home: 1 recorded work traces back to it, and it draws on 1 recorded source.

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  • Identity & self-discovery
  • Loss of a loved one

Alison Bechdel's memoir of her father, a closeted gay funeral director who died in what she believes was suicide shortly after she came out as a lesbian.

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Fun Home

It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, United States, focusing on her complex relationship with her father. The book addresses themes of sexual orientation, gender roles, suicide, emotional abuse, dysfunctional family life, and the role of literature in understanding oneself and one's family.