The ninth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga.
‘Wonderful. . . . As compulsively readable and endearing as all the previous novels have been’ Booklist (starred review)
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Now ninety-two, Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her ‘logical family’ in San Francisco. Some members of that family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert but Anna has another destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the 16-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse he called home. There she journeys into the dusty troubled heart of her Depression childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams and attend to some unfinished business she has long avoided.
For almost four decades Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from ground-breaking newspaper serials turned into ten classic novels, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane dazzle in these sparkling comedies of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.
