So Fun Home may be my new favorite book .
The idea of a autobiography focusing on someone other than the main character is so interesting to me. But I was thinking a minute ago. How would Alisons life been if Alison lived with her father......and his lover?
That's right! Let's suppose Alison was born and that her mother divorced her father because of gay early enough in alisons childhood that she didn't ever wonder about her mother but instead lived with an openly gay Bruce? How would her life be different? Would her father have lived longer? I'm curious to hear your opinions so feel free to comment your thoughts!
(Also I just found out Fun Home is being made a musical and I am currently listening to a song from it which you can download here <-------. It's about Alisons love for Joan and it's adorable)
(Edit: I read further and even Alison asks this so now I'm even more curious to know y'all's opinions)
Its hard to imagine and almost impossible to imagine without changing so much of the story----most importantly its history. The scenario you propose would have been pretty close to impossible until----the last couple of decades?
ReplyDeleteBut---what if her father had had the resources she has? Had he been able to live his life openly, its likely that he wouldn't have killed himself, no? And yet, as she hints in the book, he might not have lived very long either as he would have hit the advent of AIDS: especially the early part of the outbreak when it was relatively unknown how to protect oneself.