![]() ![]() ![]() Relying primarily on the papers her father left, including his journals, poetry, prose, letters, drawings and cartoons, as well as interviews with family, friends, and her own recollections, she has not only recreated an era, but captured the zeitgeist of the period. She seamlessly weaves these strands into a captivating tapestry. ![]() One of the few qualms I have towards this marvelous book is Alysia's subtitle, "A Memoir of My Father." "Fairyland" is as much a memoir of her own life, as well as the story of San Francisco in the 1970s and 80s, especially queer bohemian life in the Haight Ashbury, and the AIDS epidemic. Her father was the gay poet/author Steve Abbott, who wrote for many San Franciscan publications, including the B.A.R., and died of AIDS in 1992. ![]() He tried to do what he thought was best, even if he didn't always know what 'best' was or how to achieve it." With this perceptive observation, Alysia Abbott, in her elegant, forthright, and raw memoir (recently released as a paperback), summarizes both her single father raising her and the key elements of their unique father/daughter relationship and unconventional lifestyle. "If he was sometimes a failure as a parent, he was always a noble failure. ![]()
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