It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father by Alysia Abbott
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A beautiful, vibrant memoir about growing up motherless in 1970s and ’80s San Francisco with an openly gay father. With a new foreword 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. 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...
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father by Alysia Abbott is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.
This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father aloud.
Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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