Margaritas and My Fairy Godfather: Book Signing With Robert Mailer Anderson
Schedule
Sat Jun 29 2024 at 06:30 pm
UTC-07:00Location
2250 Mission St., San Francisco, CA, United States, California 94110 | San Francisco, CA
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Margaritas and My Fairy Godfather author Robert Mailer Anderson signs his latest graphic novel dedicated to The Castro Theater and answers questions while frozen cocktails are served...THE STORY:
Reeling from her parents tragic death, teenaged Billie is uprooted from her native Austin, Texas to live in Liberal, Kansas - which despite its name, is not politically, or socially, liberal. Her Uncle Hank and Auntie Em protest, but Billie's new guardian is her godfather Adam, “a gay, film geek stuck inside a jock’s body – a jock’s world.” With his wisecracking partner Steven, they run the Starlite movie theater, an oasis for film buffs and “the friends of Dorothy." Together, they face new challenges in their relationships and from the conservative town as they become Billie’s parents, help her “reinvest in life” as they all travel the rocky, yellow brick road of love and heartbreak.
Liberal, the adopted home of The Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy, also has its share of wicked witches with unsettled scores. And a high school of students fighting 21st century culture wars. Along the way Billie meets Clara — a goth, lesbian Dorothy impersonator who’s used to being an outsider — Simon, her irrepressible and karaoke-obsessed younger brother – and Dylan, who finds himself caught between his cowardly allegiance to a rigid clique and finding the courage to act on his attraction to progressive Billie.
My Fairy Godfather tells the bittersweet tale of how film, poetry, and music connects us to who we’ve loved, who we’ve been, and who we are becoming — and that lying beneath the façade of teenage cynicism is the profound desire to be understood and loved. "
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