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Now, all the awards for best book or best graphic novel aside, here's a little explanation why Fun Home is so beloved by critics. The book is filled with literary references and draws a lot analogies with the major works in English (or European) literature. So, unless you are very familiar with the Icarus tale, Ulysses, Madame Bovary and Oscar Wilde there's a lot of content you will be missing. Fun Home still remains a strong book, but in my opinion not the best book of 2006 anymore, or at least not the best graphic novel. Maybe it is still the best work of literature though.
About the book itself, imagine coming to terms with yourself because you discover that you are lesbian and then to be outshadowed by your father...Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, 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 his 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 adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive.
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