Listed below are a number of terms, concepts, and elements that play a prominent role in the works to which Fun Home alludes as well as a brief description for each entry. Though not exhaustive, this list aims to provide a helpful way to group texts along thematic lines. Click a term to a list of works referenced in Fun Home that are tagged with that term.

Absent Father
Activism
Alcoholism
American South
Art
Crime
Europe
Fascism
Father Figures
Frame Narrative
Gothic
Greek Mythology
Homosexuality
Infidelity
Juvenile Literature
Lesbian
Marriage
Mental Illness
Origin Stories
Suicide
Teacher

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