![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, anything with my hometown as a setting/character fascinated me at the time, and still does. The novel focuses on Mary Ann Singleton, a newly transplanted secretary from Cleveland, Ohio, and her adventures as she adapts to a much different lifestyle than the one she experienced in the Midwest. I was first introduced to the series in 1993 or so when PBS showed a mini-series version of the first novel on Masterpiece Theater, starring Olympia Dukakis as Anna Madrigal, the pot-growing landlady of an apartment building on Russian Hill, at 28 Barbary Lane. ![]() ![]() Armistead Maupin’s stories of a bunch of San Franciscans living and loving and doing drugs in the late seventies and early eighties started off as a column in the San Francisco Chronicle and were eventually published as a series of novels. I started reading this series when I was but a child of seventeen. It’s really very unfortunate that this is the ninth book in Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City series, and also the first one I’ve ever talked about on the blog. ![]()
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