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Alison Bechdel’s groundbreaking, bestselling literary 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, a unique coming-of-age story written with controlled force and enlivened with humor, rich literary allusion, and heartbreaking detail. How does a daughter resolve the legacy of mystery left by the man she called her father? Family Secrets: Growing up in the family funeral home, nicknamed the “Fun Home,” was only the first layer of mystery in a household built on secrets. LGBTQ+ Coming of Age: As Alison com