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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
Fairyland A Memoir of My Father
Author: Alysia Abbott
A vibrant, poignant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and ?80s San Francisco with an openly gay father.After his wife?s death in 1973, poet and activist Steve Abbott comes out of the closet and moves with his three-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city bustling with gay men in search of liberation?few of whom h...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393082524
ISBN-10: 0393082520
Publication Date: 6/3/2013
Pages: 272
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 4
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There was a lot about this memoir that is easy to appreciate, including the eyewitness testimony of the developing gay rights movement through the eyes of a child growing up within it, the glimpses of how the AIDS epidemic impacted communities and families alike, and the distinctive character of a girl being raised by a single gay father. I had trouble getting into it at times, but would still consider it to be an incredibly useful read, and a good reminder of a time not long past.


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