In celebration of Banned Books Week happening later this month, we’ll be using our September graphic novel highlights to feature comics and graphic novels that have been banned or challenged in the U.S., beginning with the critically acclaimed memoir by Alison Bechdel, “Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic.” Fans of family-heavy and emotionally-charged memoirs should absolutely check this bestseller out! Read on to learn why.
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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.
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The book was listed among the country’s top ten most banned books in 2015 and was listed in the top 100 most challenged books of the decade.
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