"Here are stories of the strange ways - sexual and cultural, sweet or sour - in which people perform their humanity."--BOOK JACKET. "Common to all the stories is the "outsider," through all the various registers - political, social, sexual - that the word can imply. The worlds these stories create are the dreamlike, shattered landscapes where alien cultures collide and coexist, inhabited by characters who are alien to one another and to themselves."--BOOK JACKET.

"Meet, for example, Clara Diamant, "a rising academic star in her early thirties," who seems a model of innocence while studying and espousing postmodern theories of perversion. Or Robby, whose love for a young boy dying of tuberculosis is viewed through the uncomprehending and yet uncannily suspicious eyes of his wife. There is also the narrator of "A Wave of the Hand," who gradually comes to realize that her father is a woman. (She takes this bit of news remarkably well.)"--BOOK JACKET.

"The author, herself, slips in and out of these fictions, which weave back and forth across the track of her own life."--BOOK JACKET.