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) ____________________ 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. Hurdling barriers both social and sexual Maupin leads the eccentric tenants of
Barbary Lane through heartbreak and triumph through nail-biting terrors and gleeful
coincidences in a sexually-liberated San Francisco. The result is a glittering and addictive
comedy of manners that continues to beguile new generations of readers.
