They begin by discussing the letters she and her father would write each other, beginning when she was a little girl summering with her grandparents in Illinois, and continuing right up until Alyisa came back from her studies in France to take care of her father as he was dying. Fairyland is a story of love and survival, and American history.įor Lambda Literary, Alyisa sat down with writer Ted Kerr to talk about her father, her book and her responsibilities. In between is a world of memories, remembered through letters from father to daughter Steve’s journal, maintained as long as he could and recollections from Alysia, who in the 20 years since her father’s death has become a parent herself, and grapples with what it means to be a straight woman with a queer legacy and a connection to the ongoing AIDS crisis that no one wants to discuss. The book begins in Georgia in the late 60s, when Barbara and Steve met and married, and ends in San Francisco in 1992, when Steve died of AIDS, Alyisa at his side.
Norton & Company), Alysia Abbott shares her story of growing up as the daughter of writer and editor Steve Abbott, a leading cultural critic and important voice in the New Narrative movement, who raised Alysia from the age of three after Barbara Binder Abbott, his wife and Alysia’s mother, died in a car accident. Aug“A lot of the book is about me feeling closeted about my father’s sexuality.”
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