**A PBS Great American Read Top 100 Pick** **The first novel in the beloved *Tales of the City *series, Armistead Maupin’s bestselling San Francisco saga, and inspiration for the Netflix original series,* Tales of the City*** **“A consummate entertainer who has made a generation laugh. . . . It is Maupin’s Dickensian gift to be able to render love convincingly.”— Edmund White, *Times Literary Supplement*** For almost four decades Armistead Maupin’s *Tales of the City* has blazed its own trail through popular culture—from a groundbreaking newspaper serial to a classic novel, to a television event that entranced millions around the world. The first of ten novels about the denizens of the mythic apartment house at 28 Barbary Lane, *Tales* is both a sparkling comedy of manners and an indelible portrait of an era that changed forever the way we live.