Abigail Garner
Dec 18th, 2006
Dec 18th, 2006
Getting Noticed in the Mainstream
A big congratulations to Alison Bechdel who found out today that among the numerous accolades Fun Home has received, it was named the #1 Book of 2006 by Time Magazine.
ALISON BECHDEL, FUN HOME
The unlikeliest literary success of 2006 is a stunning memoir about a girl growing up in a small town with her cryptic, perfectionist dad and slowly realizing that a) she is gay and b) he is too. Oh, and it’s a comic book: Bechdel’s breathtakingly smart commentary duets with eloquent line drawings. Forget genre and sexual orientation: this is a masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other.
Stunning. Breathtaking. Masterpiece. Kudos!