The Days of Anna Madrigal - Armistead Maupin

The Days of Anna Madrigal

By Armistead Maupin

  • Release Date: 2014-01-21
  • Genre: LGBTQIA+ Fiction
Score: 4.5
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From 193 Ratings

Description

New York Times Bestseller

“Wonderful. . . . As compulsively readable and endearing as all the previous novels have been.” — Booklist (starred review)

Suspenseful, comic, and profoundly moving, The Days of Anna Madrigal, the ninth installment in Armistead Maupin's bestselling "Tales of the City" series, follows one of modern literature’s most beloved and indelible characters—Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane—as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her complicated past

Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of “leaving like a lady,” Mrs. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her “logical family” 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 Anna’s family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada’s 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.

Reviews

  • Wrapping Up the Story

    5
    By TD's music
    If you are a fan of San Francisco and the late 60s forward this are its predecessor books are must read You'll need to get over the cascading coincidences but it sets up the narrative Read & enjoy
  • Please Mr. Maupin

    5
    By Rtsjinkies
    Why must this be the the last tales of the city story..... Why.
  • The days of Anna Madrigal

    5
    By Jpnspencer2
    Tears fill my eyes saying farewell to these wonderful and whacky characters! You will always be with me.
  • Sigh

    5
    By Bearrnmem
    Why did this book seem so short? I can never get enough of AM and the world he has built/reflected in his books I'm sad that this is the end of the Tales written world but know that it really isn't the end They all live on in us all. Thanks AM
  • Maupin dishes up the final course with rainbow sherbet.

    5
    By Bullmaze
    Tart, tangy, and oh so cool is how Maupin finishes out the last chapters of his "Tales of the City" series in "The Days of Anna Madrigal." A joyful, tearful, and boisterous ending to a great American saga.

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