This book parallels the author's own coming out against the author's closeted gay father, and its title puns on its partial setting at a funeral home.
This book ends on the image of a girl leaping off a diving board in a comparison to Icarus, and its narrator recalls discovering a naked photograph of her babysitter Roy. A pale blue shading was used to color this book, and most panels in it were modeled on photographs. While studying at (*) Oberlin, the narrator learns of another character's death at home in Beech Creek, which she believes is a suicide. This book was followed by the "sequel" Are You My Mother? and it was written by the author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For. This book parallels the author's own coming out against the author's closeted gay father, and its title puns on its partial setting at a funeral home. For 10 points, name this graphic memoir by Alison Bechdel later made into a Broadway musical.
This book ends on the image of a girl leaping off a diving board in a comparison to Icarus, and its narrator recalls discovering a naked photograph of her babysitter Roy.
Fun Home