![]() Alysia’s grandparents help out, taking the girl for summers to their home in the mid-west and paying tuition for a private school. Alysia is three.įather and daughter move to San Francisco, where they eke out a precarious, semi-nomadic existence as Steve struggles to succeed as a writer. ![]() On the way back to Atlanta they are in a terrible car accident. He is arrested in Michigan trying to run drugs across the border when the charges are dropped, Barbara hurries to get him. Her lover, Wolf, is a suicidal, drug-addicted patient she had treated in her job as a social worker. In a complicated story of which the young Abbott knew almost nothing, Barbara, perhaps pushed by Steve’s regular relationships with other men, entered into a relationship of her own. They married and soon had a daughter, Alysia. His declaration of his bisexuality didn’t get in the way of their relationship, at least not at first. Steve Abbott met Barbara Binder when both were graduate students in Atlanta in the late 60s. Can’t say for sure how it will stay with me, but I’m guessing most of it will vanish as thoroughly as the sometimes gritty, sometimes gossamer world it depicts. But I didn’t like it as much as some people I know. ![]() I enjoyed Alysia Abbott’s memoir of growing up with an openly gay father in 1970s and 80s San Francisco, racing through it in a couple of evenings. ![]()
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