But as I get to know the stubborn man, I learn that perhaps he’s not as naive as I once thought. He’s charming and almost everyone else instantly loves him, but he doesn’t understand how risky it is being part of this unit as a human. The moment the pesky human walked through that door, I knew I had to get rid of him. That’s all Marcus was supposed to be, but now, he’s so much more and I can’t imagine my life without him. They’ve already taken enough from me and I’m afraid they’re going to take all of me if I don’t find someone to help. But what he doesn’t know is that I didn’t join the unit because I was tired of being a homicide detective, I joined because there is someone after me. He’s grumpy, short-tempered, and broody, but I have a way with words and I know he’s starting to like me, even if he swears he’s not. The unit has never had a human in it, and Marcus-or as I like to call him, Fangy McFangface-would really prefer to keep it that way. Getting into the vampire-only detective unit was the easy part what’s going to be more difficult is dealing with my new partner, an ancient vampire who keeps threatening to eat me.

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. 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. 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 60,000 revelers gather to construct a city designed to last only one week. 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. Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of “leaving like a lady,” Mrs. The Days of Anna Madrigal, 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.

The ninth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin - The Days of Anna Madrigal

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