Fun Home | A Hybrid Book Discussion

YOU'RE INVITED

• Join your friends and meet new ones as we begin our eighth season of CDGA Queer Lit Book Club and discuss A Reader Recommendation- Alison Bechdel's Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic. *This hybrid event will take place in person at Wood Library in Canandaigua and online via Zoom.

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OVERVIEW

• "An unusual memoir done in the form of a graphic novel by a cult favorite comic artist offers a darkly funny family portrait that details her relationship with her father, a historic preservation expert dedicated to restoring the family's Victorian home, funeral home director, high-school English teacher, and closeted homosexual."

WE ♥ LIBRARIES (September is National Library Card Sign-Up Month!)

• Our event title is available to borrow through the OWWL, Monroe and New York Public Library systems.

WE ♥ INDEPENDENT BOOKSTORES

• Noire Reading Room is Rochester's online/pop-up Black Feminist Bookstore, featuring Black, Queer, and Radical texts. Support Noire Reading Room when you purchase this event's selection on their partner page with Bookshop.
• Archivist Books is a Black, Queer-owned independent bookstore based in Rochester, NY. Support Archivist Books when you purchase this event's selection on their partner page with Bookshop.
• Ampersand Books is the Neighborhood of the Arts' independent bookstore owned and operated by Writers & Books, Rochester’s leading nonprofit literary arts center.

CREDITS

• Fun home: A family tragicomic. (n.d.). OWWL library system. Retrieved September 2, 2025, from https://search.owwl.org/Record/271707?searchId=43517828&recordIndex=1&page=1&referred=resultIndex