This shocking revelation, which Bechdel comes to know after her own coming-out in college, comes on the heels of family upheaval, culminating in her father's death by bread truck. She comes to understand her in a different light as an adult, when it's revealed that he's been having affairs with teenage boys, and suddenly, his eccentricities start to finally have an explanation. Father and daughter clash: He, an impeccable dresser wants his daughter in fashionable clothes She, more happy in boots and mismatched tops and bottoms. Then, in a rehabbed manor house thatt her father meticulously restores, not with his family's comfort in mind, but with aesthetically pleasing (and often impractical) furniture. Growing up with him as a father led to an unconventional childhood: first, in the family funeral home, where seeing dead bodies and playing with coffins with just another day. Bechdel centers her story around her relationship with her difficult father, whom she loved despite his rages and eccentricities. The illustrations and text work together to create powerful storytelling. Probably one of the best graphic memoirs out there.
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