"After an eight-year wait, Armistead Maupin rewards his fans and accomplishes the unthinkable: He surpasses the excellence of his Tales of the City series. Filled with twists and turns that rival The Sixth Sense and The Crying Game, Maupin’s new novel is a deceptively simple page-turner Maupin presents his tale with such polished, effortless elegance that his talent can be underestimated because the sweat behind it is invisible."

--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"I’M A FABULIST BY TRADE," warns GabrielNoone, alate-night radio storyteller, as he begins to untangle the skeins of his tumultuous life: his crumbling ten-year love affair, his disaffection from his Southern father, his longtime weakness for ignoring reality. Gabriel’s most sympathetic listener is Pete Lomax, a thirteen-year-old fan in Wisconsin whose own horrific past has left him wise and generous beyond his years. But when this virtual father-son relationship is rocked by doubt, a desperate search for the truth ensues. Welcome to the complex, vertiginous world of The Night Listener.