Fun Home

     The title reads, "Fun Home:  A Family Tragic Comic"  My initial reaction was, how can something be fun, and tragic.  I figured the title was sarcastic when it said fun.  When I read into the book a little bit I think my assumption was right.
     The story is about the author growing up and figuring out that she is lesbian and then finding out later that her father hid the fact that he was gay.  She uses her families "odd" life to make a tragic story semi-funny.  She places the tragedies with in humor to lighten up the topic.  Her family owned a funeral home and to make it funny she would add in stories of them being kids and playing around, but also the lesson she learned at that time from her father.  She saw a dead person for the first time there and encountered her fathers work inside the funeral parlor.
     So far I think this book is going to be lessons and things she learns throughout her life from, about, and things around her father.  However, through her life experiences I think it is going to be about how she grew and changed especially through her father's secret.
     Maybe she will challenge the views on gay/bi/lesbian individuals and couples.  How maybe that held her father back from being who he was and maybe causing his "suicide."  Maybe also touching base on her own relationship with females and how people viewed her because of it and maybe understanding or not understanding how her father treated his own orientation.
     Another question that has popped up so far in the reading is did her father commit suicide or was it an accident?  It seems to me that is was a suicide because of all the clues he left behind in his books.  I just think the author and her family didn't want it to be so publicly known that he had committed suicide it might have been to much of a shock for them to handle so they just said it was a accident.
     I hope these questions are answered as a read further or are delved deeper into.  So far it is a story full of questions that need answers.