Sleeping in Velvet
notes from Amazon.com:
"Fiction. Short stories. Thaisa Frank weaves short narratives together into a meditation upon the gleaming fragments of memory that make up private history. 'I know my mother the way I know the air. I know her the way I know cats who come for an evening and then live on. I know her the way I know a garden in Kansas, over thirty years ago, brimming with lilacs and a rough stone birdbath.' (from 'Eating')."
A Brief History of Camouflage
notes from Amazon.com:
"Fiction. Short Stories. Thaisa Frank writes of lives that brush up against one another, but cannot fuse because of their characters' reluctance to be known, reluctance to be loved. A BRIEF HISTORY OF CAMOUFLAGE traces loss of love, elided empathy, and persistent memory in the cycles of knowing and not knowing one another. 'My mother fell asleep right away and an ineffable membrane opened between us. I felt her heart and breath, fueled by mysterious powers, love beyond her knowledge of it.' (from 'Night Visit')."
Finding Your Writer's
Voice editorial review from Book List:
"Does everyone in America want to be a writer? Publishers seem to think so,
witness the never-ending flow from the presses of books on writing. (If
publishers
really do have their fingers on the pulse of America, buy stock in computer
discs
and spiral-bound notebooks.) Interestingly, most of these books, like Frank and
Wall's, emphasize the creative aspect, not the mundane business end, of writing.
Frank and Wall do, however, take a refreshingly novel approach to the subject of
encouraging the beginning creative writer. Focus on voice, they suggest, for it
will
be what distinguishes you from the pack (of other writers buying such books as
this). Happily, Frank and Wall practice what they preach in their own
well-wrought
book, whose voice is frank and objective but warmly conversational. The many
exercises are intriguing and imaginative. --Pat Monaghan"
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