"[Alison Bechdel] hits notes that resemble Jeanette Winterson at her best.She's made a story that's quiet [and] dignified." Publishers Weekly, Starred "[With] uncommon richness [and] depth.[Fun Home] shares as much in spirit with.other contemporary memoirists of considerable literary accomplishment." Kirkus Reviews, Starred "Alison Bechdel -- she's one of the best, one to watch out for." --Harvey Pekar "If David Sedaris could draw, and if Bleak House had been a little funnier, you'd have Alison Bechdel's Fun Home." --Amy Bloom, author of A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You "Brave and forthright and insightful--exactly what Alison Bechdel does best.

" --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina "Stupendous.mesmerizing.The details.are devastatingly captured by an artist in total control of her craft." --Chip Kidd, author of The Cheese Monkeys "One of the very best graphic novels ever." Booklist, ALA, Starred Review "Fun Home must be the most ingeniously compact, hyper-verbose example of autobiography to have been produced. pioneering." --Sean Wilsey The New York Times Book Review TIME Best Book of the Year: "A masterpiece about two people who live in the same house but different worlds, and their mysterious debts to each other.

" Time Magazine "One of the best memoirs of the decade . at once hypercontrolled and utterly intimate." --New York Magazine, 10 Best Books of 2006 New York Magazine "Fun Home must be the most ingeniously compact, hyper-verbose example of autobiography to have been produced . a pioneering work." --Sean Wilsey The New York Times Book Review "A revelation . feels like a true literary achievement, something with characters who baffle and disappoint and break hears the way people do in life and in the best of prose." Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Graphic storytelling at its most profound." --a Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2006 The Los Angeles Times.