crabbygirl reviewed Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
Review of 'Fun Home' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
my what a difference a few years make!
I found an old review for this book from 2012 and it's quite a departure from 2015 me (or maybe I got the title wrong... she also wrote Are You My Mother? and that one's dense with references
2012
this memoir intertwines the author's declaration of her homosexuality with the revelation that her father was a closeted gay man until a few months before his apparent suicide. using numerous literary works by authors that are too daunting for me to approach just yet (like Proust, Camus, and James Joyce) the implications of the parallels were - more than occasionally - lost on me.
2015:
this artist is an intellectual and a masterful author. I haven't read such a wonderful graphic novel since Blankets by Craig Thompson. each of the chapters could stand on it's own as a story, or a theme, and …
my what a difference a few years make!
I found an old review for this book from 2012 and it's quite a departure from 2015 me (or maybe I got the title wrong... she also wrote Are You My Mother? and that one's dense with references
2012
this memoir intertwines the author's declaration of her homosexuality with the revelation that her father was a closeted gay man until a few months before his apparent suicide. using numerous literary works by authors that are too daunting for me to approach just yet (like Proust, Camus, and James Joyce) the implications of the parallels were - more than occasionally - lost on me.
2015:
this artist is an intellectual and a masterful author. I haven't read such a wonderful graphic novel since Blankets by Craig Thompson. each of the chapters could stand on it's own as a story, or a theme, and be fleshed into an entire book. it's the sparseness, the things that aren't said with words, but are in the drawings, that make this a large book even though it's a mere 230 pages
