num_pages: 304
description: A hilarious and touching new installment of Armistead Maupin's beloved Tales of the City seriesTwenty 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 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 reengage with life only to confront fresh terrors when her checkered past comes back to haunt her in a way she could never have imagined.After the intimate first-person narrative of Maupin's last novel Michael Tolliver Lives Mary Ann in Autumn marks the author's return to the multicharacter plotlines and darkly comic themes of his earlier work. Among those caught in Mary Ann's orbit are her estranged daughter Shawna a popular sex blogger; Jake Greenleaf Michael's transgendered gardening assistant; socialite DeDe Halcyon-Wilson; and the indefatigable Anna Madrigal Mary Ann's former landlady at 28 Barbary Lane.More than 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.
language: English
title: Mary Ann in Autumn
publisher: Harper