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A Memoir of My Father
W. W. Norton
June 2013
On Sale: May 28, 2013
345 pages
ISBN: 0393082520
EAN: 9780393082524
Kindle: B00AR35438
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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 liberation—few of whom are raising a
child. Steve throws himself into San Francisco’s vibrant
cultural scene. He takes Alysia to raucous parties, pushes
her in front of the microphone at poetry readings, and
introduces her to a world of artists, thinkers, and writers.
But the pair live like nomads, moving from apartment to
apartment, with a revolving cast of roommates and little
structure. As a child Alysia views her father as a loving
playmate who can transform the ordinary into magic, but as
she gets older Alysia wants more than anything to fit in.
The world, she learns, is hostile to difference. In
Alysia’s teens, Steve’s friends—several of whom she has
befriended—fall ill as AIDS starts its rampage through their
community. While Alysia is studying in New York and then in
France, her father tells her it’s time to come home; he’s
sick with AIDS. Alysia must choose whether to take on the
responsibility of caring for her father or continue the
independent life she has worked so hard to create.
Reconstructing their life together from a remarkable
cache of her father’s journals, letters, and writings,
Alysia Abbott gives us an unforgettable portrait of a
tumultuous, historic time in San Francisco as well as an
exquisitely moving account of a father’s legacy and a
daughter’s love.
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