As the portrait of a conspiracy of love between a father and a daughter, it is heartrending, a brilliant addition to the literature of American memoir." - Honor Moore, Author of Our Revolution "A beautiful, haunting book that instructs, even as it breaks our hearts." - Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion: A Memoir "Clear-eyed and heartrending, Fairyland captures a singular time and place in American history. "I'm so glad you wrote this book." - Terry Gross - NPR's Fresh Air "Compassionate, cleareyed." - Alexandra Styron - New York Times Book Review "More than the story of just one person also open a window on an entire society." - Leigh Newman - O, The Oprah Magazine "I love the book Fairyland it's a sweet and unique love story of a girl and her dad." - Sofia Coppola "Doubles as a portrait of a city and a community at a crucial point in history.funny, strange, and sweet." - The New Yorker "Alysia beautifully remembers the innocence of the age between the disappearance of the Beats and the onset of AIDS." - San Francisco Chronicle "Generous, precise, and deeply moving, Fairyland is a love story that not only brings a new generational perspective to a history we're in danger of forgetting, but irrevocably shifts the way we think about family itself." - Alison Bechdel, author of Are You My Mother? "Gorgeous.As a chronicle of the moment when the San Francisco of Armistad Maupin became the city of Harvey Milk, when gay and experimental poetry flourished in California, Fairyland is vivid and indelible.
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