Last night we went to the Gerber / Hart Library, an LGBT Archive near Loyola University to participate in a book group discussion of Alison Bechdel's graphic novel, Fun Home: A Tragicomic. Bechdel, best known for her longstanding comic strip, Dykes to Watch Out For, has written a compelling and complicated story of her troubled relationship with her closeted and ultimately suicidal father and the import of how he chose to deal with his sexuality for the way she chooses to deal with hers. Everyone in the group gave it an enthusiastic thumbs up.
The discussion was quite lively and much more tied to the book itself than any other book group that either of us have participated in! Everyone was asked to say whether they liked the book or not and to give a brief overview of its high and low points. Afterwards, several of us went to Joie De Vine, a bar in the Andersonville neighborhood, frequented mostly by lesbians. All in all, it was quite an enjoyable evening. We'll definitely be back for the next installment of this book club! (Though, of course, everything pales in comparison to our beloved book club in Athens ;^)
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