I really enjoyed this book and plan on reading the next in the series entitled Further Tales of the City. Each character has their own individual life, but as a collective group they make a beautiful book. As a reader you want to know what the secrets are because Maupin makes you invested in each o the characters. The thing is though there are overarching themes that actually get solved as well, which makes it very interesting to read in its entirety. Each chapter was featured as the daily story and because of this the book seems highly dramatic at time because it would be fairly obvious that each article had to keep the reader invested to return to it the next day to read. The reason for this ease isn't because Maupin wrote them this way as a book, but because the chapters are originally articles that appeared in, I believe don't quote me on this, the San Francisco Chronicle. One of the things that makes this particular book interesting is that each chapter is relatively short, so it is quickly read and makes it easy for a reader to find a stopping point when they need to put it down for awhile. This book continues the characters that are introduced in Tales of the City, which is the first of this particular series.
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