Several characters from early in the series are dead, and we want all our remaining friends to get a long farewell. Landlady Anna Madrigal is 92 and retired. Still, how can we imagine San Francisco without them? Michael Tolliver, Mary Ann Singleton and Brian Hawkins are all in their 60s. But we also know that their creator wouldn't speak so openly of their 'days' or their lives 'in autumn' if the plan was to keep them around forever. We won't ever be ready to leave the residents and landlady of 28 Barbary Lane. That book, ' Michael Tolliver Lives,' was followed by 2010's 'Mary Ann in Autumn.' His beloved characters are several decades older, as is San Francisco, which has seen two tech booms, a major earthquake and a couple of World Series victories. His new novel, 'The Days of Anna Madrigal,' is billed as 'the ninth and final' in his 'Tales of the City' series, but we've seen it coming since Maupin's 2007 return to the story. 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.Armistead Maupin prepared us for this. 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. 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. 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.

Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of “leaving like a lady,” Mrs.

The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching novel, 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. The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City

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