The days of Anna Madrigal : a novel

A. Maupin

Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of 'leaving like a lady', Mrs Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her 'logical family' in San Francisco : her devoted young caretaker Jake Greenleaf; her former tenant Brian Hawkins and his daughter Shawna; and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singelton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades. While some members of her family are bound for Nevada's legendary Burning Man Festival, Anna herself has another destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road where the sixteen-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse he called home. With Brian and his beat-up RV, she journeys into the dusty troubled heart of her Depression childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams, and attend to unfinished business she has long avoided.