Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father, Alysia AbbottA beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and 80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. 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 liberationfew of whom are raising a child. Steve throws himself into San Franciscos vibrant cultural scene. He

“In order to be social

This is the first of two volumes (the second to appear in 2019) that together will constitute the first complete English translation of Shalamov’s stories and the only one to be based on the authorized Russian text

"Delightful

one of the best in the business

” —Jennifer Egan

Precisely a coach pulled by black horses appears

the nurse instead takes the child and disappears to another city to raise the baby as her own

compassion

only to realize she’s found a link to the unsolved “apothecary murders” that haunted London over two centuries ago

coauthor of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin

he tracked down each of the girls he had tried to date since middle school and asked them straight up: What went wrong

who has just received a postcard in Stockholm-and they think they know where the next victims will be