Michael and his husband Ben are off to Burning Man too, albeit with a degree of reluctance from Michael who’s feeling his age. Jake and his new squeeze are off to the Burning Man festival for which Jake has built a tricycle in the form of a monarch butterfly to honour Anna. In The Days of Anna Madrigal, the ninth instalment, Anna is ninety-two years old, frail but still the wise old bohemian bird, cared for by the transgendering Jake Greenleaf who lives with her in Noe Hill, Barbary Lane having been taken over by stock brokers. They’re a delight – each one is like meeting up with old friends for a long overdue gossip. It features a group of young people – Mary Ann Singleton, straight as a die and fresh from Cleveland Michael Tolliver, the complete opposite Mona Ramsey, a hippyish bisexual and Brian Hawkins, a little older and very much the ladies’ man – all living in the bohemian confines of Barbary Lane under the loving eye of Anna Madrigal who offers her guests beautifully rolled joints alongside the nibbles. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, Tales of the City is a collection of novels reflecting the life and times of their author which originally ran as a column in the San Francisco Chronicle beginning back in the ‘70s. If you’re a Tales of the City fan the very title of this novel will have you salivating with anticipation so without further ado – it’s lovely.
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