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Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father

by Alysia Abbott
Norton. 2013. 272p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 9780393082524. pap. $25.95; ebk. ISBN 9780393240528.
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OrangeReviewStarAbbott's moving memoir of growing up with her gay activist-poet father, Steve Abbott, begins with her parents' unconventional marriage in Atlanta. When Abbott's mother was killed in the early Seventies, father and daughter moved to San Francisco, where he lived as an out gay man. Referencing his diaries and letters, the author re-creates their lives and presents a history of a vibrant gay community, the AIDS crisis, and her return to the United States at 21 to care for him in his last illness. (LJ 5/15/13)
Reviewed by Lisa N. Johnston , Mar 01, 2014
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