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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