The Funny Thing about Fun Home: Art and Truth in Alison Bechdel's Comic Memoir
Posted on 2018-09-12 in Events
Sep 26, 2018
Literature Matters 2018-19
Talks by members of the Department of English
The Funny Thing about Fun Home:
Art and Truth in Alison Bechdel's Comic Memoir
by Professor Ella Ophir
Wed, Sept 26
7:30 PM
Grace-Westminster United Church
(Social Hall, 5050 10th St E)
A funeral home, a family, a young woman's sexual self-discovery, a puzzling death. And a whole lot of books. Where does documentary evidence leave off and imaginative art begin? Is truth really stranger than fiction? Alison Bechdel's Fun Home is precise enough to navigate by. It is also a dizzying house of mirrors that will leave you taking another look at how you assemble the pieces of your own life's puzzle.