![]() ![]() Alison and her siblings goof around in and even sleep over at the funeral home, causing them to have a far more casual and cavalier attitude toward death than most children. ![]() The book is, literally, a “tragicomic.” On a deeper level, it evokes the way that the memoir treats death as both tragically life-alternating and as comedic, in the sense that even terrible events can come to seem absurdly and ridiculously humorous.īruce’s premature death, and likely suicide, hangs heavily over the book’s narrative, while the phrase “Fun Home” is the Bechdel children’s not-entirely-ironic nickname for the family-run funeral home that Bruce inherits from his father. First, it captures the fact that the story of Bruce in the memoir is a tragedy told in the format of a graphic novel – a comic. ![]() ![]() The subtitle of Fun Home – “A Family Tragicomic” – captures a number of aspects of the book. ![]()
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