Michael Tolliver Lives

By: Armistead Maupin

Michael Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin’s classic Tales of the City series, is arguably one of the most widely loved characters in contemporary fiction. Now, almost 20 years after ending his groundbreaking saga of San Francisco life, Maupin revisits his all-too-human hero.

Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael embraces the random pleasures of life as he finds love with a younger man, attends to his dying fundamentalist mother in Florida, and finally reaffirms his allegiance to a wise octogenarian who was once his landlady. Both bawdy and bittersweet, Michael Tolliver Lives is a novel about the act of growing older joyfully and the everyday miracles that somehow make that possible.