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The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City Following the success of his New York Times bestseller Michael Tolliver Lives, Armistead Maupin’s Mary Ann in Autumn is...

In a Cape Breton family of black sheep, Mary is pure as the driven snow. She is patient and kind with her alcoholic grandmother and volatile mother, loyal and attentive to her spoiled cousin, and pleasant and polite all day as a grocery cashier. Her well-­off aunt, the only other normal person in the family, wants to help her more, but Mary’s mother is too prickly and proud. So Mary goes to work, comes home, takes care of her family, and wonders if there’ll ever be more to life.

Mary McAllister, skamferet af et slag fra sin afdøde, voldelige mand, lider af en svær angstneurose og har tilbragt næsten 60 år isoleret i det såkaldte "Marmorpalæ", med udsigt over byen Mill River i Vermont. Hendes forbindelse til omverdenen består udelukkende af posten, medierne, en aldrende præst med hang til at stjæle skeer, og et soveværelsesvindue med udsigt over byen under hende. De fleste beboere i Mill River betragter 'Marmorpalæet's indehaver som ejendommelig, men dog som en fast del af deres samfund.