Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

Fun Home has been named as

• Time Magazine’s #1 Best Book of the Year
• Entertainment Weekly’s #1 nonfiction in the “best of 2006″ list (not online yet but in paper edition)
• The Times (London)’s #10 of “10 best books of 2006“
• New York Magazine’s #7 in “Best in Books“

Salon also posted an excerpt & an interview of Alison Bechdel. (You can read the article after clicking the sponsor’s link) Meanwhile, the book is banned in some library in Missouri (see this blog — well, even Harry Potter is banned )

Anyway, Fun Home is not just a comic book. It’s a graphic novel which tells a story of her family, centered on her father, and how it led to the sudden death of her father some 20 years ago. What a family, what a story.

PS: Be careful that some reviews may contain some spoilers