This character is admonished for using midnight blue instead of canary yellow in a Wind of the Willows coloring book. This character and Beth Gryglewicz (“grigg-LAY-vitch”) miss a football game to dress up as con men named Billy McKean and Bobby McCool, which she records in a diary filled with a shorthand symbol for the phrase “I think,” a symptom of her OCD. This character’s grandmother tells her a story about a mailman saving her father as a child from getting stuck in the mud. As a college student, this character returns home to Beech Creek, Pennsylvania, with Joan. This character’s father is obsessed with restoring a Gothic revival house and later kills himself with a Sunbeam bread truck, which this character believes was related to her coming out as a lesbian. For 10 points, name this narrator and author who reflects on her relationship with her closeted gay father in the graphic memoir Fun Home. ■END■
ANSWER: Alison Bechdel [or Alison Bechdel]
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