**Alysia Abbott** learned from her father to boldly live the life you are meant to live. In her memoir _Fairyland_, she chronicles her unusual childhood, growing up on Haight St. in San Fransisco, raised by her father, a gay man who chose to pursue his life to the fullest, against all odds.
Alysia Abbott is the author of Fairyland, A Memoir of My Father, which was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and an ALA Stonewall Award winner and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Awards. She grew up in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the only child of gay poet and writer, Steve Abbott.