Tales of the City #9
Harper
February 2014
On Sale: January 21, 2014
Featuring: Jake Greenleaf; Anna
288 pages ISBN: 0062196243 EAN: 9780062196248 Kindle: B00DB32QK0 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead Maupinβs bestselling βTales of the Cityβ series, follows one of modern literatureβs most unforgettable and enduring charactersβAnna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Laneβas she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past.
Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of βleaving like a lady,β Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her βlogical familyβ in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker Jake Greenleaf; her former tenant Brian Hawkins and his daughter Shawna; and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades.
Some members of Annaβs family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevadaβs Black Rock Desert where 60,000 revelers gather to construct a city designed to last only one week. Anna herself 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. With Brian and his beat-up RV, she journeys into the dusty troubled heart of her Depression childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams and attend to unfinished business she has long avoided.
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