Fun home : a family tragicomic
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©2006.
Physical Desc
232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5973
1 available
741.5973
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Morro Bay Library - Adult Nonfiction
741.5973
1 available
741.5973
1 available
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction | 741.5973 | On Shelf | |
Morro Bay Library - Adult Nonfiction | 741.5973 PBK | Checked Out | April 25, 2024 |
Morro Bay Library - Adult Nonfiction | 741.5973 | On Shelf |
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Published
Boston : Houghton Mifflin, ©2006.
Format
Book
Language
English
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Description
This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned 'fun home,' as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive.--From publisher description.
Awards
American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards, 2007
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