Review of Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

The complexity of the narrative and the breadth of topics that Bechdel breaches in her biography is truly astounding. She demonstrates what my professor meant when she said, “It’s a paradox, but being more specific and more personal in your writing can help readers relate to your story more.”

It is a graphic novel – wonderfully illustrated – but a challenging read due not only to the subject matter, but the allusions and analysis of existing literature.

Fun Home helps you understand not only what it is like to be Alison Bechdel, it reminds you that everybody else is living a reality with as much complication, personal meanings, quirks, desires, and traumas as your own. i.e., “sonder.”

Bechdel’s frankness, courage, and creativity in telling her story her way is nothing short of inspiring.