In the two years since Fun Home was named book of the year by Time magazine, her life has become a lot busier. Her brother drove the hearse and she once passed a pair of scissors to her father over an open corpse, mid-embalmment. The title of her graphic memoir is the nickname she and her two brothers used for the Bechdel Funeral Home, the family business her father ran in rural Pennsylvania, and where they used to help out as children. And? She smiles in understatement.īefore Fun Home, her first extended work, came out, Bechdel was a respected but relatively obscure, cartoonist with a syndicated strip, Dykes To Watch Out For, in various alternative newspapers in America. I was going to tell the truth and everything would be out in the open." The truth of her father's not-quite repressed homosexuality, and the day he stepped in front of a truck and was killed, in what she believes was suicide, required a lot of healing. "I had this fantasy that this book was going to heal us and bring us all together. Two years ago, Bechdel published a book that she hoped would act on her family like a miracle cure.
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