Cultural Center Announcements

  • 10/12 -- Rainbow Center Grad Book Club

    Join us at the Rainbow Center's Graduate Student and Young Professionals Fall 2016 Book Club! We will gather on Wednesday, October 12 at 5pm in the Rainbow Center (Student Union 403). 

    The book selection is Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel: 

    "A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books.

    This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form.

    Meet Alison's father, a historic preservation expert and obsessive restorer of the family's Victorian home, a third-generation funeral home director, a high school English teacher, an icily distant parent, and a closeted homosexual who, as it turns out, is involved with his male students and a family babysitter. Through narrative that is alternately heartbreaking and fiercely funny, we are drawn into a daughter's complex yearning for her father. And yet, apart from assigned stints dusting caskets at the family-owned "fun home," as Alison and her brothers call it, the relationship achieves its most intimate expression through the shared code of books. When Alison comes out as homosexual herself in late adolescense, the denouement is swift, graphic -- and redemptive." -- Amazon.com Summary

    If you do not own a copy of Fun Home, but would like to read it in time for next week's book club, there are several copies available for borrowing from the Rainbow Center Library in the Student Union. 

    Refreshments will be provided, and don't forget to bring a friend! 

     

     

    For more information, contact: Timothy Bussey at timothy.bussey@uconn.edu

If you have any questions, please contact Grad School at 860-486-3617.