When mentioning to a coworker that I was reading this graphic novel, the immediate question posed was "isn't that the lady who made up the Bechdel Test??" And yes, that is an accurate statement. But Fun Home is much less a story about Ms. Bechdel herself or her feminist views or her self-discovery as a lesbian than it is about her relationship with her father and reconciliation towards his actions. The aforementioned subjects are definitely prevalent throughout the book, as the author comes to terms with her confused emotions about her father, she also has to come to terms with her confused emotions about her sexuality and feeling as an outsider in a male-dominated world, but her father and his actions are the driving force behind this book. 
 Fun Home feels inextricably haunted. I don't mean that in the "woooooo I'm a ghoooost" sense, but the author has so many questions about the man her father was that his presence demands to be felt. The entire book, although I'm sure went through countless amounts of editing, feels very stream of consciousness to me. This is not a detraction or criticism. It is obvious to any sort of discerning eye that the author carefully chose in what order to discuss certain events in her life, but overall it has the therapeutic feeling of stream of consciousness writing in order to better think out a problem. The story's events take place over the course of the author's life, but it has the kind of introspection that I myself have gone through in order to work through certain problems in my life. I loved this aspect of the book and felt a very strong connection to the author, even though my life's experiences are nothing like her own. 
 I greatly enjoyed this book and most likely will be purchasing it in the future. I hope that Alison Bechdel and her work can one day be more well known than the test with her name attributed to it, because she deserves so much more than that one citation in her life's story.