New in paperback. Michael Tolliver was a leading character in Maupin's classic Tales of the City series. Now, almost twenty years after ending his groundbreaking saga, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero, letting the 55-year-old gardener tell his story in his own voice.

 

Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life, the tender alliances that sustain him in the hardest of times. Michael Tolliver Lives follows its protagonist as he finds love with a younger man, attends to his dying fundamentalist mother, and finally reaffirms his allegiance to a wise octogenarian who was once his landlady.

 

336 pages, paperback