Uno de los mejores libros del Siglo XXI segn el New York Times

Una familia tragicmica, el exitoso relato de maduracin de Alison Bechdel, que ha sido calificado de "proeza de retrato familiar" y de "raro y original ejemplo de por qu las novelas grficas han dado que hablar en la literatura americana".

Fun Home fue nombrado Mejor libro del ao por Time, The New York Times y People.

El padre de Alison es un profesor de ingls obsesionado por restaurar con antigedades su casa victoriana y es dueo de una vieja funeraria. En consonancia con la frialdad de su entorno, es un padre distante y tirnico que mantiene en secreto su verdadera inclinacin sexual. A travs de esta narrativa grfica, cmica y desoladora, nos acercamos a los complejos de Alison, que lucha en soledad por encontrar su lugar en el mundo y redimir su precaria relacin familiar.

La crtica ha opinado:

"Fun Home debe ser el trabajo ms ingeniosamente elaborado y un ejemplo de prolija elocuencia biogrfica [...] una obra pionera del gnero" -The New York Times

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

One of the New York Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Time Magazine #1 Book of the Year - National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist -
Winner of the Stonewall Book Award - Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award -
Nominated for the GLAAD Media Award

Alison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father.

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 legacy of mystery for his daughter to resolve.

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