Duke students say Alison Bechdel novel is 'insensitive to conservative beliefs'

Incoming freshmen refuse to read graphic novel Fun Home, which deals with sex, sexuality and suicide and was assigned for summer reading

Alison Bechdel’s graphic novel Fun Home is the tale of a dysfunctional family in running a funeral business and addresses sex, sexuality and suicide. Just the sort of thing you’d expect young people about to start college to lap up.

You’d be wrong, though, especially with regards to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Not that it’s the board of the private university founded by Methodists and Quakers that objects; it’s the incoming students.

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