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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.
ALISON BECHDEL’s cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the New York Times bestselling and Time magazine #1 Book of the Year graphic memoir Fun Home, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and Are You My Mother? Bechdel has been named a MacArthur Fellow and Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, among many other honors. The Secret to Superman Strength is her third graphic memoir.
Alison Bechdel’s acclaimed memoir recounts her early life at her family’s funeral home and her realization that she was gay. It has received many colorful challenges since its 2006 publication, including one claim that stocking the book “could result in ‘seedy people coming into the library and moving into our community’.”
ISBN: 9780618871711
ISBN-10: 9780618871711
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Publication Date: 06/05/2007 - 12:00am
On Sale: 06/05/2007 - 12:00am
Pages: 240
Language: English
Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir