Fun Home
Unfortunately, I didn’t like Fun Home very much; something about the presentation of the story as a graphic novel didn’t really click with me. However, the one aspect I really did like is the fact that the book manages to tell a story without telling you “facts”. Instead of trying to claim that her father definitely killed himself, Alison Bechdel explored several possibilities, all the while making it clear to the readers that she believes that he did. Many autobiographies or memoires try to give a series of chronological “truths”, and given that life and relationships are never one-sided, this approach doesn’t really give us a broad picture of the story. Obviously, this story is still biased towards Bechdel’s views of her father and family in general, but she doesn’t try to shove her point of view down the reader’s throats, and instead, she lets them explore the evidence themselves and decide what to believe. This works in this situation because the family dynamics are so comp...