"For her graduation from high school in 1920, Frankie Pratt receives a scrapbook and her father's old Corona typewriter. Despite Frankie's dreams of becoming a writer, she must forgo a college scholarship to help her widowed mother. But when a mysterious Captain James sweeps her off her feet, her mother finds a way to protect Frankie from the less-than-noble intentions of her unsuitable beau. Through a kaleidoscopic array of vintage postcards, letters,...

"Antonio works making spreadsheets for Bank of America, but not-so-secretly wants to be a great writer-or indeed to do anything that will help him avoid thinking about his sister, a paranoid schizophrenic on the run from the police. Antonio's attempts towrite a novel become an ekphrastic performance of avoidance and evasion, darting between the past and the present to consider relationships erotic and familial, the worlds of architecture and literature,...

Private investigator Trike Augustine may be a brainiac with deductive skills to rival Sherlock Holmes, but they're not doing him any good at solving the case of a missing gazzilionaire because the clues are so stupefyingly?well, stupid. Meanwhile, his sidekicks?Max the former FBI agent and Lola the artist?don't quite rise to the level of Dr. Watson, either. For example, when a large, dead pig turns up on Trike's floor in the middle of the night, none...

"México, 1920. Mientras el país sale de la Revolución, una mujer enfrenta una hazaña aún más grandiosa: la conquista de su cuerpo. La poetisa y fotógrafa Cayetana de la Cruz y Schneider está lista para desandar pasos y acepta desnudar su alma ante un periodista que, como todos aquellos que han sido tocados por su obra, está intrigado por conocer las confesiones de esta artista. Pero en el diálogo se cuelan los retazos de un misterioso diario...

"Lila Jerome has never been very lucky in love, and has always been more interested in studying architecture and, more recently, supporting the war bond effort on the home front. But in the fall of 1943, a chance spark with a boarder in her apartment sets Lila on a course that shakes up all of her ideas about romance."--