1 - Confessions of a Fairy's Daughter, by Alison Wearing
WHY I PICKED IT: I loved her last book, and one of her one-woman plays.
ELAPSED TIME: 1 Week
RATING: Very Good
Wearing's new book is a biography of her father. Growing up with a pianist mother, a political science professor father, and two brothers in Peterborough, Ontario, was fairly normal... until her father realized that he is gay. The first two thirds of the book is her own experience. The next quarter is excerpts from her father's diaries and newspaper articles that he had cut out. Near the end, she shares her mother's perspective.
She describes the challenges and the mistakes... but also the warmness that comes with living your life genuinely and true to ones-self. I will continue to seek out, and read, everything by Alison Wearing.
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