The Days of Anna Madrigal (Standard format, CD)

Suspenseful, comic, and touching, the ninth and final 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 on a road trip that will take her deep into her past.

Now a fragile ninety-two years old and committed to the notion of leaving like a lady, Anna Madrigal has seemingly found peace in the bosom of her logical family in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker, Jake Greenleaf; her former tenant Brian Hawkins; Brian s 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 the Black Rock Desert of Nevada where sixty thousand revelers will build a temporary city (Michael calls it a Fellini carnival on Mars ) designed to last only a week. Anna herself has another Nevada destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the sixteen-year-old boy she used to be 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-era childhood, where she begins to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams, and to attend to unfinished business she has long avoided.