A CLASSIC OF GAY LITERATURE THAT HAS BECOME CULT

San Francisco, 28 Barbary Lane, Anna Madrigal runs a boarding house. She welcomes people who have nowhere else to go: the misfits. This matriarch is known for her unending kindness and her superb marijuana crop.

The novel starts with the arrival of Mary Ann Singleton, a prude, naive young woman who escaped her dull Ohio hometown for San Francisco. She settles in with her other fellow tenants: Michael « Mouse » a personable young gay man, Brian Hawkins, an inveterate Don Juan and Mona Ramsey, a young hippyish bisexual. Mary Ann finds work as a secretary in an advertising agency run by Mr. Halcyon’s whose family is as colorful as the tenants of Barbary Lane. His wife is a socialite and his daughter is sleeping with the Asian delivery boy because her husband is being unfaithful to her. What she doesn’t realize is that he is with her gynecologist, Jon Fielding!

And now in graphic novel for the first time !