{"product_id":"fun-home-a-family-tragicomic-9780618871711","title":"Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, NATIONAL BESTSELLER \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eONE OF THE\u003cem\u003e NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/em\u003e 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003csup\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eST\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/sup\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e CENTURY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTime Magazine \u003c\/em\u003e#1 Book of the Year - National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Stonewall Book Award - Double finalist for the Lambda Book Award \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlison Bechdel's groundbreaking, bestselling graphic memoir that charts her fraught relationship with her late father. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlison Bechdel\u003c\/b\u003e's cult following for her early comic strip \u003ci\u003eDykes to Watch Out For\u003c\/i\u003e expanded wildly for her family memoirs, the best-selling graphic memoir \u003ci\u003eFun Home\u003c\/i\u003e, adapted into a Tony Award-winning musical, and \u003ci\u003eAre You My Mother?\u003c\/i\u003e Bechdel has been named a MacArthur Fellow and Cartoonist Laureate of Vermont, among many other honors. Her new memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret to Superman Strength, \u003c\/i\u003eis forthcoming in 2021.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50575342797074,"sku":"9780618871711","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_59dbf58b-eab7-4372-b06c-f9a7301ac163.jpg?v=1744273807","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fun-home-a-family-tragicomic-9780618871711","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}