The Oscar-winning screenwriter has written and directed only five features in 14 years, and produced all but one. Sofia Coppola does not take on just any old project. Steve Abbott died from AIDs later in Alysia's life. Alysia Abbott's father, Steve Abbott, was a new narrative writer in San Francisco who took care of Alysia throughout her coming-of-age years. A sympathetic and deeply moving story.Wow! Hold onto your hats! Today, American Zoetrope announced that it has bought the rights to Alysia Abbott's memoir about her childhood in San Francisco among poets, writers, and artists at the brink of the AIDS Crisis, Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father. Andrew McCarthy, author of The Longest Way HomeĪs she depicts the dynamics of a unique, occasionally fraught, gay parent–straight 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 America’s most colorful cities. It also captures something much more important: what it means to be truly loved-and to love truly. Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion: A MemoirĬlear-eyed and heartrending, Fairyland captures a singular time and place in American history.

As the portrait of a conspiracy of love between a father and a daughter, it is heartrending, a brilliant addition to the literature of American memoir.Ī beautiful, haunting book that instructs, even as it breaks our hearts. 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, Fairyland is vivid and indelible. Alison Bechdel, author of Are You My Mother?

Generous, precise, and deeply moving, Fairyland is a love story that not only brings a new generational perspective to a history we’re in danger of forgetting, but irrevocably shifts the way we think about family itself. I love the book Fairyland it’s a sweet and unique love story of a girl and her dad.ĭoubles as a portrait of a city and a community at a crucial point in history…funny, strange, and sweet.Īlysia beautifully remembers the innocence of the age between the disappearance of the Beats and the onset of AIDS.

More than the story of just one person also open a window on an entire society. Alexandra Styron - New York Times Book Review

Fairyland a memoir of my father