On to the Next Dream

In this illustrated memoir adapted from the San Francisco Chronicle’s All Over Coffee series, Madonna (Close Enough for the Angels) wrestles with displacement after he is suddenly evicted from his home and art studio in the Mission neighborhood of San Francisco. Readers accompany him on his bittersweet journey as he desperately tries to secure a new place to live and work. Over the course of this slim volume, Madonna deftly chronicles his waves of rage and fear while observing the city’s rapid gentrification and skyrocketing cost of living. Once he finds a new place to live and his thoughts settle, Madonna starts to come to terms with his own changes as well as the realization that San Francisco began as a boomtown and continues to shift and evolve. He realizes that his flight to outlying areas contributes to gentrification just as much as the tech execs’ hungry acquisition of real estate all over the mainland. San Franciscans and those familiar with Madonna’s work are sure to devour this, and readers and writers of all interests would do well to spend some time with this lovely story. Illus. (Apr.)