Monday, July 9, 2007

I have complete reading Fun Home by Alison Bechdel. This novel details the authors strained relationship with her late father. The author and her siblings grew up helping out at the family business, the local funeral home hince the name Fun Home. Ironically the funeral home provided more fun and life than their own home. Bechdel's father ran the home with the flair of a Martha Stewart like tyranny. Bechdel is a gifted story teller she puts you right inside her life and she tells the story of her father not as just a tortured soul but as a multifaceted man of many passions. She doestn come right and say that her father is gay but she lets you the reader draw your own conclusions on the matter.

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