Judging by Grand Central's enthusiasm, both the café and the cookbook are outstanding. Sisters Emily and Melissa Elsen opened their pie and coffee shop Four and Twenty Blackbirds,in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 2010, then produced this book. We were chatting about new books, among them The Four and Twenty Blackbirds Pie Book. Last fall I met with folks from the publicity department at Grand Central/Hachette. 'Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness' -Jane Austen When I was a child, I used to see semis on the highway with the logo 'P.I.E.' I didn't know it stood for Pacific Intermountain Express I thought the cargo was pie, and dreamed about truckers unloading pies at cafes along the highway: blackberry, cherry or my grandfather's favorite, apple.

I heard recently that pie was poised to become the new cupcake for many of us, pie has always been the new cupcake. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.' -David Mamet, Boston Marriage

With Brian and his beat-up RV, she journeys into the dusty troubled heart of her Depression childhood to unearth a lifetime of secrets and dreams and attend to unfinished business she has long avoided.'We must have a pie. Anna herself has another destination in mind: a lonely stretch of road outside of Winnemucca where the 16-year-old boy she once was ran away from the whorehouse he called home. Some members of Anna's family are bound for the otherworldly landscape of Burning Man, the art community in Nevada's Black Rock Desert where 60,000 revelers gather to construct a city designed to last only one week. Madrigal has seemingly found peace with her 'logical family' in San Francisco: her devoted young caretaker Jake Greenleaf her former tenant Brian Hawkins and his daughter Shawna and Michael Tolliver and Mary Ann Singleton, who have known and loved Anna for nearly four decades.

Now ninety-two, and committed to the notion of 'leaving like a lady,' Mrs. The Days of Anna Madrigal, the suspenseful, comic, and touching novel, follows one of modern literature's most unforgettable and enduring characters-Anna Madrigal, the legendary transgender landlady of 28 Barbary Lane-as she embarks on a road trip that will take her deep into her past. Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The eighth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin's best-selling San Francisco saga.

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