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...stars seem aligned for this twenty-something author. Her debut novel has caused a stir in the publishing world, as well as in Hollywood. Her publisher, who acquired the book for a hefty sum against stiff competition, describes it as "a darkly hilarious coming-of-age saga," and the author as its "newest literary star." Publisher's Weekly called it a "stunning debut," giving the book a starred review: "Like its intriguing main characters, this novel is many things at once - it's a campy, knowing take on the themes that made 'The Secret History' and 'Prep' such massive bestsellers...
...Nazi Kommandante sets his eyes on the author's mother, in Miriam Katin...
...Still, Fun Home's personal exegesis can read a little too much like a personal essay with illustrations, rather than a fully organic work of graphic literature. The author often insists on telling us about an event, with critical hindsight, in a running narration over the tops of panels that simply duplicate what you read. For example, in one scene Alison must help her father hang a mirror in her already over-decorated room. "I hate this room," she says in the panels. "When I grow up my house is going to be all metal, like a submarine." This says...
...Home: A Family Tragicomic (Houghton Mifflin; 232 pages; $20) couldn't be more different from We Are On Our Own, yet it shares a focus on one parent's story. Bechdel zooms in on her enigmatic, controlling father, who, we learn early on, was an apparent suicide during the author's late teens. Now in her forties, Bechdel has gained a strong reputation for her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, a long-running weekly strip currently up to its eleventh collected edition. For Fun Home, her first long-form work, Bechdel has created a surprisingly sophisticated memoir that...
...When Bechdel quickly reveals both her father's premature death and that he led a secret life as a deeply closeted, shame-filled gay man, it comes as a shock. What author would give away both a natural narrative climax and the key to a person's mystery right at the beginning of the book? The answer is: the kind of author not interested in easy drama and simplistic explanations. In a series of chapters that more or less follow Bechdel from young childhood until her college years, the book traces her father's story...