Kirjahaku

While her soldier husband, Mike, struggles for survival and a sense of balance in Vietnam, Liz O'Reilly cares for their four children back home, remembers the theater career she gave up to have a family, and strikes up an unlikely friendship with a Vietnam veteran. By the author of The Monk Downstairs. Reader's Guide available. Reprint.

Reminiscent of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, a romantic comedy traces the relationships among six single people in one San Francisco house, including a lesbian artist, her New Age seeker, a masseur, and a neophyte. Reprint.

"All the gravestone shops in all the towns in all the world, and she walks into mine." Jeremiah Mason learned the stone-working craft from his grandfather, a cathedral mason of the old school," at an early age. But it is not until an old love shows up in his own shop one day, bearing a raw new grief, that Jeremiah begins to understand his grandfather's extraordinary gift with the mourners of those for whom he carved his gravestones with such care, and to fathom the real depths of love and loss, and the human heart. Tim Farrington of the author of the trilogy The Monk Downstairs--- a New York Times Notable Book--- The Monk Upstairs, and The Lazarus Kid; as well as the novels Lizzie's War, The California Book of the Dead, and Blues for Hannah, and the nonfiction book A Hell of Mercy: Some Meditations on Depression and the Dark Night of the Soul. His short stories and essays have appeared in The Sun, Image, Zyzzyva, and San Francisco Magazine.