Alison Bechdel

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Meet Alison’s father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family’s Victorian house, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with male students and a family babysitter. Don’t miss Dykes to Watch Out For icon Bechdel discussing (and showing slides from!) this breakout book, a father-daughter tale pitch-perfectly illustrated with sweetly gothic drawings and — like Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis — a story exhilaratingly suited to the graphic memoir form.

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