The Days
of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching ninth novel in Armistead
Maupin’s bestselling “Tales of the City” series, follows one of modern
literature’s most unforgettable and enduring 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 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.
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