“Compulsive to a fault” is how Exposé’s lead character, Sally Herrington, describes herself. Other personality traits aren’t spelled out so boldly such as her unselfishness in leaving a glitzy LA job to nurse her cancer-ridden... Read More

Fresh on the heels of winning the 2000 Benjamin Franklin Award for Young Adult Fiction for The Crouching Dragon (a Harry-Potterish bit of magic realism set in a haunted French castle), comes a slightly more grounded use of European art,... Read More

This is an eclectic anthology of the macabre, the surreal, witchcraft and just plain magic short stories. The characters range from schoolboys and housewives to practiced, Merlin type magicians. The characters in each story practice... Read More

The literary feminist fable, for all its PC piety, is hardly a foolproof genre. All too often its didactic intentions succumb to humorlessness, and lifeless, allegorical plotting overtakes the flesh and blood characters. Witness no less... Read More

As she lay dying, Khatia Quigley’s mother gives Khatia a new name—the Chinese middle name of Wu Shan. This sets Khatia on a journey to define who and what she is, most evidently in terms of sexuality and race. The common “struggle... Read More

Christina Braganti is well acquainted with the adage, “Never mix families and business,” but she never dreams how bad it can get. With her brother, Jake, she buys a townhouse in Manhattan that once housed a psychiatric hospital and... Read More

Few people today know the satisfaction of plowing a straight furrow behind a strong team of draft horses. Readers of Bailey’s Covenant, however, will come close to that knowledge vicariously as they live italong with Harry Isaacson.... Read More

This uncommonly common man, so ordinary, so invisible, carried himself in an unassuming way that spoke of strength. El Indio Jesus, the “uncommonly common man,” is introduced in scenes describing his activities during a typical week... Read More