Over three decades in the making, Armistead Maupin's legendary Tales
of the City series rolls into a new age, still sassy, irreverent and
curious, and still exploring the boundaries of the human experience with
insight, compassion and mordant wit. The last was in 2007, Michael
Tolliver Lives.The series has been added to every now and again for over 30 years and the characters age as we
go.Mary Ann is now 57 and engaging with all the trappings of the 21st century.
Twenty years have passed since Mary Ann Singleton left her husband and child in San Francisco to pursue her dream of a television career in New York. Now, a pair of personal calamities has driven her back to the city of her youth and into the arms of her oldest friend, Michael Mouse Tolliver, a gay gardener happily ensconced with his much-younger husband. Mary Ann finds temporary refuge in the couple's backyard cottage, where, at the unnerving age of fifty-seven, she licks her wounds and takes stock of her mistakes. Soon, with the help of Facebook and a few old friends, she begins to re-engage with life, only to confront fresh terrors when her speckled past comes back to haunt her in a way she could never have imagined.
Armistead Maupin is the author of Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Maybe the Moon and The Night Listener. The Night Listener became a feature film starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette. Maupin lives in San Francisco with his husband, Christopher Turner.
