Event: Armistead Maupin's Book Reading

[reviews_and_ramblings]

Date: Sunday, November 28
Time: 19.00 - 22.00
Place: The New Bloomsbury Set
76 Marchmont Street, WC1N 1AG
London, United Kingdom

Venue is a basement bar on the corner of Marchmont St and Tavistock Place - underneath Snappy Snaps - 30 second from Gay's the Word Bookshop

Mary Ann in Autumn (Tales of the City) by Armistead Maupin
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Harper (November 2, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061470880
ISBN-13: 9780061470882
Amazon: Mary Ann in Autumn: A Tales of the City Novel

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 57, 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 speckled past comes back to haunt her in a way she could never have imagined. 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. 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