Description
Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane, embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past.
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 Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades.
Some members of Anna's family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada's Black Rock Desert where tens of thousands gather to construct a city designed to last only one week.
Anna herself has another destination in a lonely stretch of road outside Winnemucca, where the sixteen-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse she 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 to attend to unfinished business she has long avoided.
Now a Netflix series starring Elliot Page and Laura Linney.
Endorsements
'One of the most acclaimed sagas of our time... A celebration of life in all its craziness' — The Times