Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
I don’t remember the first time I read Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home. My copy is worn and creased, with brightly-colored sticky notes still marking relevant pages from when I wrote a paper on it my senior year of high school. What I do remember, though, and probably always will, is the beautiful, moving, haunting story told by Bechdel about her father and her family. Fun Home is an unforgettable book, so raw and honest it tears you open, and I find that each reread reveals more insight on the nature of families, queerness, and love. While my own queerness and my own family both have very little in common with Bechdel’s, one of the most successful things about this stunning memoir is that, in the deeply personal details of Bechdel’s life, it finds ways to touch on truths that resonate with everyone who reads it.
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