Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father [Paperback]

Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and a Im so glad you wrote this book. Compassionate, cleareyed. More than the story of just one person; [ I love the book Doubles as a portrait of a city and a community at a crucial point in history&funny, strange, and sweet. Alysia beautifully remembers the innocence of the age between the disappearance of the Beats and the onset of AIDS. Generous, precise, and deeply moving, Gorgeous&As a chronicle of the moment when the San Francisco of Armistad Maupin became the city of Harvey Milk, when gay and experimental poetry flourished in California, A beautiful, haunting book that instructs, even as it breaks our hearts. Clear-eyed and heartrending, As she depicts the dynamics of a unique, occasionally fraught, gay parentstraight child relationship, Abbott offers unforgettable glimpses into a community that has since left an indelible mark on both the literary and social histories of one of Americas most colorful cities. A sympathetic and deeply moving story.