Thaisa Frank

Softcover, 224 pages ISBN 1-57423-043-3 1997, $16.95   Sleeping in Velvet by Thaisa Frank Softcover, 248 pages ISBN: 0-87685-856-6 1992 $14.95 Hardcover, 248 pages ISBN: 0-87685-857-4 $26.95   A Brief History of Camouflage stories by Thaisa Frank "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.