A memoir in graphic novel form, this funny but moving story details the author’s relationship with her sexually repressed father, particularly in how that relationship affected her coming to terms with her own sexuality. The title is the author’s play on the words “funeral home,” which was their family’s business.
As is the case with many graphic novels, the book has been challenged on numerous occasions, beginning in Missouri in 2006 when it was characterized as pornography and thought to attract the “seedy crowd.” It has been further challenged in South Carolina where the state legislature considered withdrawing funding from the College of Charleston for including it on a voluntary summer reading list; the measure was revoked even as the funding was nonetheless “relocated.”