If you ignore the ending, it's a great book. Interesting and funny, Armistead Maupin is great at writing these soap-opera-y books. For the time it was written, it was very diverse. Armistead Maupin is excellent at writing his own community, and the gay representation is better than some things produced now. But it shows the importance of diverse writers- he falls short writing lesbians, even further with people of colour. The ending dropped my rating a lot. I don't know why that was written. It's the beginning of a series of fun reads if you decide to continue reading past that part,

when the white woman (D'or) is revealed to have been faking being black to get more jobs. Theres so much wrong with that, I just can't. /spoiler>