RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewA pioneering work, pushing two genres (comics and memoir) in multiple new directions, with panels that combine the detail and technical proficiency of R. Crumb with a seriousness, emotional complexity and innovation completely its own ... Bechdel\'s rich language and precise images combine to create a lush piece of work — a memoir where concision and detail are melded for maximum, obsessive density ... Fun Home is at its heart a story about a daughter trying to understand her father through the common and unspoken bond of their homosexuality.