From reviews of A Brief History of Camouflage, by Thaisa Frank

"...Thaisa Frank's stories read like frontline reports from the ongoing guerilla warfare that engulfs families today. Written in a terse, economic style, they are capable of packing an emotional punch that will leave the reader gasping in recognition."

--Linda Rogers, San Francisco Chronicle

"Curiously compelling scenes of domestic magical realism in which wives struggle to remember long-forgotten former husbands and spies cope with sexual geography."

--Robert Hurwitt, East Bay Express

"This oddly beautiful collection of stories....[is] duplicitous, hallucinatory, mysterious....Frank continually startles us. She alerts us to the fact that we are always on the edge, never knowing who we are, why we live, why we exist. Thinking is 'camouflage'--the terrifying condition of life."

--Irving Malin, Review of Contemporary Fiction

"This collection of stories brilliantly examines the detachment within intimacy which seem to plague men and women today....shows wit and invention...arresting and thought-provoking."

--Terri Harden, Small Press Magazine

"Frank...reels you in with phrases of such precision they have the authority of revelation....Her writing is so economical and tight, the stories feel like fabulous artifacts."

--Karen Kevorkian, Express Books

"These stories interweave overtly symbolic strands of narrative with wryly observed details of ordinary domestic life in such a way that not only deepens our notions of the ordinary but startles us into fresh ways of looking at the particular symbol....controlled, yet passionate."

--Cara Diaconoff, Indiana Review