Catrin, with the exception of one post (mine) in the favorite books thread yours is the first to mention Armistead Maupin. And I think I got his name wrong in that thread. Weren't those books great?

For those who don't know him he was(is?) a newspaper columnist in San Francisco. He began a series column, a fiction, detailing the lives of the tenants of an apartment building during the '70's. The series showed the free and easy lives of the people, gay and straight, in San Francisco. The columns were then compiled in a book titled Tales Of The City.

There were two or maybe three books of columns and then he began to write novels going deeper into the characters. PBS picked up on it and made it a TV miniseries which is faithful to the books and scandelous in this strait laced United States society. It is available on video.

These books, and the video, are full of unexpected plot twists that will keep you focused and interested right through to the end. Do yourself a favor. See/Read these.