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Fun Home can be read in connection with Bechdel's second memoir, Are You My Mother?
Consider other graphic novel memoirs, such as Roz Chast's Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?, Ellen Forney's Marbles, or Maggie Thrash's Honor Girl.
Consider also other family memoirs focused on complex parents, such as Jeannette Walls's The Glass Castle or Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.
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The Question and Answer section for Fun Home is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
In her memoir, Alison Bechdel writes about the process of discovering that she is attracted to women and coming out to her family at 19. While young Alison faces certain struggles as she attempts to embrace her sexuality, she is able to do so in a...
It chronicles the author's childhood and youth in rural Pennsylvania, United States, focusing on her complex relationship with her father. I think during 1970's.
It focuses specifically on the author's parents, Helen and Bruce, and their role in her life. Bechdel builds the narrative around the tragic event of her father's death.
