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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel is a graphic novel memoir that chronicles Bechdel's relationship with her late father, Bruce, exploring themes like queer sexuality, gender nonconformity, familial dysfunction, artifice, death, and self-exploration. Through a non-linear narrative comprised of comic panels and introspective text, Bechdel reflects on her youth, her discovery of her homosexuality, and Bruce's closeted queerness. The book includes descriptions of sex, masturbation, abuse, death, death by suicide, bias against queer people, and familial dysfunction.