The ninth novel in the belovedTales of the Cityseries, Armistead Maupin-s best-selling San Francisco saga.
''Wonderful. . . . As compulsively readable and endearing as all the previous novels have been-Booklist (starred review)
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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
