TY - GEN AU - Bechdel, Alison TI - Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic  SN - 9780224080514 U1 - 741.5 BEC PY - 2006/// CY - London PB - Jonathan Cape Ltd KW - Family Tragicomic N2 - DISCOVER the BESTSELLING GRAPHIC MEMOIR behind the Olivier Award nominated musical. A sapphic graphic treat' The Times. A moving and darkly humorous family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Alison Bechdel's gothic drawings. If you liked Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis you'll love this. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high-school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and the family babysitter. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescence, the denouement is swift, graphic, and redemptive ER -