W W Norton Company</br></br>Product Description</br></br><p><strong>A beautiful?? vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and ??80s San Francisco with an openly gay father.</strong></p> With a new foreword <p>After his wife dies in a car accident?? bisexual writer and activist Steve Abbott moves with his two-year-old daughter to San Francisco. 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.</p><p>Steve throws himself into San Francisco??s vibrant cultural scene. 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. But the pair live like nomads?? moving from apartment to apartment?? with a revolving cast of roommates and little structure. As a child Alysia views her father as a loving