Description

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A special hardcover Deluxe Collector’s Edition of Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir and basis for the Tony Award–winning musical—featuring a cloth case with new art, a reversible jacket with new art on both sides enhanced with teal and silver foil, and sprayed edges.

Distant and exacting, Bruce Bechdel was an English teacher and director of the town funeral home, which Alison and her family referred to as the “Fun Home.” It was not until college that Alison, who had recently come out as a lesbian, discovered that her father was also gay. A few weeks after this revelation, he was dead, leaving a confused legacy for his daughter to resolve.

In her hands, personal history becomes a work of subtlety and power, written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail.

About the Author

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Alison Bechdel’s cult following for her early comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the New York Times bestselling and Time magazine #1 Book of the Year graphic memoir Fun Home, adapted into a Tony Award–winning musical, and Are You My Mother? Most recently, The Secret to Superman Strength was named a New York Times Best Graphic Novel of 2021. Bechdel has been named a MacArthur Fellow, among many other honors.

Praise For…

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“The great writing of the twenty-first century may well be found in graphic novels and nonfiction....Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home is an astonishing advertisement for this emerging literary form.” - USA Today
“Graphic storytelling at its most profound.”  - Los Angeles Times, Favorite Book of the Year
“A splendid autobiography...refreshingly open and generous.”  - Entertainment Weekly
“Fun Home must be the most ingeniously compact, hyper-verbose example of autobiography to have been produced. . . .pioneering.”  - New York Times Book Review
“A masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other.”  - Time Magazine