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A beautiful, lively memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and 80s SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA with an openly gay daddy. After his better half dies in a vehicle accident, bisexual copy writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old little girl to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA. There they discover a city amid revolution, bustling with gay men searching for liberation - few of whom are boosting a child. Steve throws himself into San Francisco's lively cultural field. He calls for Alysia to raucous functions, pushes her before the mike at poetry readings, and introduces her to an environment of designers, thinkers, and freelance writers. But the pair live like nomads, moving from apartment to apartment, with a revolving solid of roommates and little framework. As a child Alysia views her daddy as a adoring playmate who can transform the normal into magic, but as she ages Alysia wants more than anything to squeeze in. The earth, she discovers, is hostile to difference. In Alysia's teenagers, Steve's friends - many of whom she's befriended - fall season ill as Products starts its rampage through their community. While Alysia is learning in NY and then in France, her daddy tells her it is time to get back; he's sick and tired with Products. Alysia must choose whether to defend myself against the duty of looking after her daddy or continue the unbiased life she's worked so difficult to produce. Reconstructing their life together from a exceptional cache of her father's journals, words, and writings, Alysia Abbott provides us an remarkable portrait of any tumultuous, historic time in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA as well as an exquisitely moving accounts of any father's legacy and a daughter's love.
