Alison Bechdel

Un relato tragicómico en formato de memorias de la vida de una familia americana. En 2006 Houghton Mifflin publicó sus memorias gráficas, Fun Home: Una tragicomedia familiar, el exitoso relato de maduración que se ha calificado como «proeza de retrato familiar» y un «raro y original ejemplo del porqué las novelas gráficas han ocupado la conversación sobre la Literatura Americana.» Fun Home está nominado al premio National Book Critics...

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,...

"A graphic novel biography of Charlotte Bronte, following her and her siblings from childhood to the publication of Jane Eyre"--