Days of Anna Madrigal

<p><strong>Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series <em>Tales of the City</em></strong></p><p><strong>The eighth novel in the beloved <em>Tales of the City</em> series Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.</strong></p><p><em>The Days of Anna Madrigal</em> 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.</p><p>Now ninety-two and committed to the notion of leaving like a lady Mrs. 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.</p><p>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 60000 revelers gather to construct a city designed to last only one week. 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. 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.</p>