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Who is this book for?
- Readers who like graphic novels and memoirs
- People who are facing their family of origin and their own identity
- People interested in LGBTQ literature and gender issues
- People who like finding resonance in literature
Who is the author?
- Alison Bechdel was born in Pennsylvania in 1960 and is a cartoonist
- She is the originator of the "Bechdel test" and won a MacArthur "genius" fellowship in 2014
- She currently teaches at Yale University and also wrote Are You My Mother?
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Book notes
A Funeral Home Called the "Fun Home"
According to Wikipedia, Fun Home is a graphic memoir published in 2006 by the American cartoonist Alison Bechdel, recording her childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, centered on her complicated relationship with her father. The title comes from the family business: a funeral home. The family nicknamed it the "Fun Home," a name that is also ironic, hinting at the father's domineering rule at home.
The Father's Two Jobs
The Obsession with Restoring the Old House
A Father and Daughter Inverted
A Letter Coming Out
A Death Without Answers
A Narrative Like a Labyrinth
Understanding Family Through Literature
A Father and Daughter Exchanging Memoirs
Seven Years of Painstaking Work
Pictures Meant to Be Read
Awards and Classic Status
The Broadway Musical
Controversy and Removal Attempts
The Author, Bechdel
The Chinese Edition
Bottles that drifted to this book
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Shang's reading list
Voyager's Guide
The world
The Sea of Books has 24 real islands, one for each subject. Every building on an island is a book.
What you can do now
- Tap an island on the chart to go ashore
- Tap a building to read the notes on that book
- Meet Shang, the Navigator
Coming soon
- Chapter 2: register as a voyager, sail your ship, collect building badges, send bottles
- Chapter 4: private chats with other voyagers
Symbols
Ship's Registry
Before you set sail, let's get your ship registered.