![]() In San Francisco, as Abbott describes in her new memoir, Fairyland, her father immersed himself in the city's gay arts scene, becoming a leading literary figure. And he, in a sense, felt that I was all that he had in the world, and he was all that I had in the world." "His relationship with a young man that he had while he was with my mother had dissolved. "After my mother's death, I think my father felt like he didn't have very much," Abbott tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. ![]() Her mother's death brought the two of them even closer. While her father had not initially wanted a child, Abbott says he enjoyed spending time with her when she was a baby. He moved with his daughter to San Francisco, just as the gay liberation movement was gaining strength. But when Alysia was a toddler, her mother died in a car accident and Steve came out as gay. ![]() When her parents met, her father - Steve Abbott - told her mother he was bisexual. While these days it's not uncommon to meet children with gay parents, in the 1970s it was. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Fairyland Subtitle A Memoir of My Father Author Alysia Abbott ![]()
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