But the pair live like nomads, moving from apartment to apartment, with a revolving cast of roommates and little structure. 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. Steve throws himself into San Francisco’s vibrant cultural scene. 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. With that in mind, it’s safe to assume that we’ll be receiving confirmation that she will helm Fairyland sometime within the next month or so.A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco with an openly gay father.Īfter his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. Though Coppola is only committed to the project as a writer and producer, the director has always written the scripts for her films and has served as a producer on every project but her first: The Virgin Suicides. 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. 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. In Alysia’s teens, Steve’s friends-several of whom she has befriended-fall ill as AIDS starts its rampage through their community. The world, she learns, is hostile to difference. 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 Amazon synopsis for the book reads as follows:Īfter his wife dies in a car accident, bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves in with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. Fairyland focuses on the relationship between a daughter and her bisexual father in San Francisco during the beginning of the AIDS crisis.
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