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Originally Posted by gmw
I think one of the things that made the book stand out for me was the use of San Francisco. Between my own researches concerning the city, and finding its distinctive character used in this and other stories*, the place feels quite real to me. I'd love to learn how the reality matches my imagination.
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I lived for nearly 20 years in the San Francisco Bay area, but always in the East Bay. It's astonishing to me how little I know of SF, and yet what I know is vastly interesting, both historically and in it's current form. One book definitely worth a read is Armistead Maupin's
Tales of the City. Might be an interesting book for us to read one of these months. Certainly, it had a powerful effect on the community far beyond San Francisco.