Fun Home Age Rating: What Age Is It Right For?

Name: Fun Home
Availability: InStock
Author: Alison Bechdel

Recommended Age:

Best for mature independent readers who engage with emotionally complex, literary graphic memoirs dealing with identity, family secrets, and LGBTQIA+ experience.

About the Book

A cartoonist reflects on her complicated childhood relationship with her closeted gay father and her own coming out as a lesbian, in this literary graphic memoir.

Content Ratings

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Moderate Romance

The book discusses sexual orientation and coming-out experiences, references the author's father's same-sex relationships, and depicts adolescent sexual identity exploration.

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Intense Themes

Sustained themes of repressed sexual identity, parental secrecy, grief, and the psychological weight of a closeted parent's double life. Includes discussion and depictions of LGBTQIA+ identity and relationships.

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No Violence

References to a death treated as a possible suicide, without graphic depiction.