Alison Bechdel
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
240 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This book takes its place alongside the unnerving, memorable, darkly funny family memoirs of Augusten Burroughs and Mary Karr. It's a father-daughter tale perfectly suited to the graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out,...