"In the spell-like, poetic fiction of Thaisa Frank, the fantastic is never far from the ordinary: her characters glimpse other worlds in their rear-view mirrors, receive postcards from long-dead friends, and take lovers who literally glow in the dark, their mustaches filaments, their pubic hair incandescent. Call it 'domestic magical realism, 'call it the work of a West Coast I.B.Singer, it's fiction that 'packs an emotional punch that will leave the reader gasping.'"—San Francisco Chronicle

Thaisa Frank, recipient of two PEN writing awards, lives in Oakland, California.