Logical Family by Armistead Maupin

Reissue of Armistead Maupin's fabulous memoir.
 
 In this funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest memoir, the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San Francisco, and his evolution from curious youth to ground-breaking writer and gay rights pioneer.  It is a journey that leads him from the racism and misogyny of mid-century North Carolina to a homoerotic Navy initiation ceremony in the jungles of Vietnam t.  After losing his virginity to another man 'on the very spot where the first shots of the Civil War were fired', Maupin packs his earthly belongings into his Opel GT and heads west to that strangest of strange lands: San Francisco in the early 1970’s.
 
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‘Logical Family is a sweet, filthy peach of a memoir from a cultural explosion of a man’ - Caitlin Moran
 
‘A beautiful memoir — so tender and funny and dignified and kind that it left me a little weepy’ - Alan Cumming
 
‘I read Logical Family as slowly as I could. It was like having the great man visit and sit smoking and gossiping from an armchair at the foot of the bed’  - Patrick Gale