Perfect Timing: A New Illustrated Guide to the Real San Francisco

Wendy MacNaughton, an author and illustrator who has the rare distinction of being a fifth generation San Franciscan, that’s such a tiny part of it.

"When I used to think of San Francisco I considered it my city," says MacNaughton, whose graphic journalism appears everywhere from The New York Times Opinion section to Edible San Francisco. "I thought I knew enough about it to have a sense of everything going on. I thought I knew the town. By learning about other people’s lives here, lives very different from my own, I started appreciating how many different experiences of the same place are going on at once. My little S.F., between work and home, the restaurants and bars I enjoy, is only one of thousands of S.F.'s. And all of those thousands together is what make up a city."