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Sure of You

By Armistead Maupin
Sure of You by Armistead Maupin digital book - Fable

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"A quietly understated masterpiece." —USA Today

The sixth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga.

A fiercely ambitious TV talk show host finds she must choose between national stardom in New York and a husband and child in San Francisco. Caught in the middle is their longtime friend, a gay man whose own future is even more uncertain. Wistful and compassionate yet subversively funny, Sure of You is a pitch-perfect novel in Maupin’s legendary series.

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“As I understand it, "Sure of You" was originally meant to be the end of the Tales of the City series. It certainly reads that way. Obviously, now there are many more entries beyond this, but there is a level of finality and a sense of "ending" that sort of permeates the entire book. There is a sense of moving on that shows up in various ways throughout each characters journey. For some I felt this worked well, and for others, not so well. What I failed to connect with the most, however, was the whimsy and camp of it all. Tales of the City feels like family to me. Since I read the first book, I have come back to Barburry Lane every year to continue the adventures, and there has always been a sort of soap opera camp to the tales. They are always a bit silly, and outrageous, with enough humanity and depth thrown in to make them feel like a comfort read for me. This entry and the last, for me, lacked much of that, and I struggled through them. The tonal shift for the last few entries, I think, matches much of what was occuring at the time in San Fransisco, and to some degree, I welcome the shift. I understand wanted to talk about the very real affect of AIDS on the communities in these books. I think that the balance of this was done near perfectly in "Babycakes" the fourth installment. This was the first of the series to mention AIDS and for it to play a large part of the story. While the story tackled the topic with grace and nuanced, there still remained a level of joy and zanyness to the overall plot and shenanigans of those residents of barberry lane. I wish that balance had remained throughout the remaining books, and into this one. Still, there is something about Anna, Mouse, Brian and Maryanne that feel like family to me. Whether the story remains campy or sad, I want to know where they are and how they are doing. I come back, because Maupin created a found family that feels like home. I can only imagine, when these were first released as periodicals, what that must have been like to read, and to experience. I don;t think I will ever stop reading the series until it is completed, and have high hopes that some level of camp will return. I want my gay soap opera!”
“mary ann queen you’ve always been a certain kind of person and that was fine but you’re pissing me AWF”

About Armistead Maupin

Armistead Maupin is the author of the Tales of the City series, which includes Tales of the City, More Tales of the City, Further Tales of the City, Babycakes, Significant Others, Sure of You, Michael Tolliver Lives, Mary Ann in Autumn, The Days of Anna Madrigal, and Mona of the Manor. His other books include the memoir Logical Family and the novels Maybe the Moon and The Night Listener. Maupin was the 2012 recipient of the Lambda Literary Foundation’s Pioneer Award. He lives in London with his husband, Christopher Turner.

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