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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father
Fairyland A Memoir of My Father
Author: Alysia Abbott
A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and ?80s San Francisco with an openly gay father.After his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. There they discover a city in the midst of revolution, bustling with gay men in search of liberat...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393348903
ISBN-10: 0393348903
Publication Date: 6/2/2014
Pages: 352
Edition: 1
Rating:
  • Currently 2.8/5 Stars.
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2.8 stars, based on 3 ratings
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 8
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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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