Akiva Reads

by Armistead Maupin

A loving portrait of 1970s San Francisco, with "oh no they DIDN'T!" moments that made me audibly gasp about every ten pages. I want to read all of them forever. Easy to read; you can tell it was originally serialized.

The way Maupin handles some things (trans issues---okay, it's not brought up in this book, but it was pretty obvious to me that Anna is trans) feels a bit dated, but it fits with the times. The mocking treatment of the white characters' racism seemed dead on to me, but be warned that they say and do some pretty horrible stuff.