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Mary Ann in Autumn
Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City Novel | Armistead Maupin
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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.
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"There should be a rabbit hole was what she was thinking. "

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2-21-21: My 20th finished book of 2021! Book 8 in the Tales of the City series. Mary Ann is back from NYC, in need of help from her dear friend Mouse. There were several story lines in this one and they all met up in the end with lots of surprises along the way. I hate that there is only one more book in the series. These characters feel like friends!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #maryanninautumn #armisteadmaupin 👍🏼📖#️⃣2️⃣0️⃣

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Almost all seasons. #marchintoreading #seasons

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