THE SUMMER READ
Selected by Mark Holgate.“Fairyland: A Memoir of my Father” by Alysia Abbott.
“People often say memoirs are heartbreaking but this one really, truly is. Alysia Abbott chronicles growing up in San Francisco
as a young child with a gay father, and then the terrible devastation of AIDS taking its toll. It’s absolutely beautifully written; an elegiac
and unflinching tribute to not only her dad but also to a city that was disappearing in more ways than one.”
Mark Holgate is Fashion News Director at Vogue.
