Fun Home

Alison Bechdel's autobiographical graphic novel Fun Home: A Tragicomic is today's featured article on Wikipedia's main page. (Here is a permanent link to today's main page.)

I have written about Fun Home, and attempts at censorship of it, elsewhere in this blog. (According to Wikipedia, the library that had temporarily censored Fun Home has returned the book to the library.) And as many of you know, memoir is an interest of mine. (I wrote my New College thesis about watching my father get sick and die of AIDS.) Fun Home is a complex story about two people, Bechdel and her father, who were both more different and more similar than either knew. It blew my mind when I first read it (after checking it out of my local library), and I liked it even more when I recently re-read it. I recommend it highly.