An interesting Fun Home

I enjoyed this, reading it twice. I then re-re-read the chapter A Happy Death.

I should insert here that I have been really ill the last few days, so will keep this short.

Her father's death left Allison with quite a few questions and I feel unresolved feelings around her father and the relationship she had with him. Was it an accident? Was it suicide? We may never know, but what seemed to linger in my mind was her almost fascination with pinning the suicide on her coming out letter. I had a difficult time negotiating that. If it were a suicide, well, her father came up in a time when many gays were closeted, living double lives. Could his trying to live two lives - one false - have been the impetus? His wife certainly knew (I wanted more on that relationship, alas), and her request for a divorce may have triggered a suicide.

However, seeing her father depicted as a lover of restoration of older homes (and he was starting a restoration project), his love of books, landscaping, and his engagement in life, I could not buy that his was a suicide.

The tragedy in her father's death was another individual who was only mentioned -- the bread truck driver. How horrible for that individual to be at the wheel of the truck when her father jumped back into the traffic lane.

I am hoping that in reading Are You My Mother? I will find some answers to her parents' relationship, as well as her relationship with her mother, and perhaps more information on her father.