People are so peculiar, and getting older doesn’t make them any better.

Tove Jansson

Sun City is one of Tove Jansson’s lesser-known adult novels. At the Butler Arms guest house in the perfectly quiet town of St. Petersburg, Florida, some retirees live a science fiction-like existence together. Their story is about growing old, but even more so about the importance of first becoming yourself. The novel is also a satire on America and how it treats old people.

The book was first published in Swedish as Solstaden in 1974 and was translated into English in 1976.