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 I have to confess that I set fully prepared to not like "Fun Home".  I was so opposed to the idea of a comic book novel but I was soon dissuaded.  I have never read, looked, or even thought about a comic book.  It seems though that I have overlooked a genre that is very appealing to me, do to the fact that the ability of the author to ramble on is severly limited, not the Bechdel was at the risk of rambling.  The fact that all of what the author is writing is limited to captions and a brief description at the top of some of the boxes forces the author to be deliberate about what she is trying to say. In some instances Bechdel choose to write nothing at all, leaving a picture for the reader to contemplate.  The style of the "tragicomic" is more interesting to this reader than the subject of the novel, not that it is an uninteresting story by any stretch of the imagination.  Anyone who can use Camus and Dr. Spock in the same novel while representing their ideologies correctly is clearly adroit.