Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver, the sweet-spirited Southerner in Armistead Maupin's classicTales of the Cityseries, is back. Now a fifty-five-year-old gardener, he brings the groundbreaking saga of San Francisco life up to date. Having survived the plague that took so many of his friends and lovers, Michael Tolliver has learned to embrace the random pleasures of life, the tender alliances that sustain him in the hardest of times. While he has found love with a younger man, he must attend to the harsher realities around him: his dying fundamentalist mother in Florida, and those whose lives have not unfolded so happily. And in so doing, he finally reaffirms his allegiance to a wise octogenarian who was once his landlady. With mordant wit and an ear for pitch-perfect dialogue from the bawdy to the bittersweet,Michael Tolliver Livesreveals the art of growing older joyfully and the everyday miracles that somehow make that possible.