WCAI, in partnership with20 Summers, presents Daughters and Fathers: Alysia Abbott and Joan Wickersham in Conversation. This event was recorded live on May 13th at the Hawthorne Art Barn. The two authors have both written critically acclaimed memoirs about the fathers they loved and lost too soon.
In Fairyland, which won an ALA Stonewall Award, Abbott chronicles her Haight-Ashbury upbringing with an openly bisexual father who succumbed to AIDS. Wickershams's The Suicide Index, a National Book Award finalist, is a wise, moving, and often surprisingly humorous account of how she and her family endured in the aftermath of her gentle, affectionate father’s shocking suicide. The two authors discuss their memoirs, their writing lives, and their other work.
Daughters and Fathers: A Conversation at the Hawthorne Art Barn
20summers.org
