Name: UWC Reading Group | Fun Home by Alison Bechdel.
Start: 2026-10-07T18:30:57+01:00
End: 2026-10-07T19:30:57+01:00
Location: University Women’s Club, 2 Audley Square London, W1K 1DB

UWC Reading Group

Wednesday, 7th October at 6.30pm

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

Graphic Memoir

Looking back on her childhood and adolescence, Alison Bechtel considers her relationship with her emotionally distant father whose complex identities included funeral-home director, English teacher, obsessive restorer of their Victorian house, and closeted homosexual.

The narrative is by turns funny and heart-breaking, and the way the author contrasts her own coming-out as lesbian with her father’s tortured sexuality is brilliantly handled (and drawn).

The author has described her book as a ‘family tragicomic’

For those of you joining us at the Clubhouse, please do stay and enjoy a meal in the Dining Room. Don’t forget to reserve your place for dinner.

Click here to explore the Reading Group’s Library and to see what other genres they will be discovering in the coming months.

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UWC Reading Group | Fun Home by Alison Bechdel.