Available for the first time in a single volume, Francesca Lia Block's luminous saga of interwoven lives will send the senses into wild overdrive. These five postmodern fairy tales chronicle the thin line between fear and desire, pain and pleasure, cutting loose and holding on in a world where everyone is vulnerable to the most excruciatingly beautiful and dangerous angel of all: love."Ms. Block's far-ranging free association has been controlled and shaped ... with sensual characters. the language is inventive Californian hip, but the pattern are compactly folkloristic and the them is transcendent". -- The New York Times Book Review"Magic is everywhere in Block's lyrical and resonant fables, which always point back to the primacy of family, friends, love, location, food and music. At once modern and mythic, her series deserves as much space as it can command of daydream nation's shrinking bookshelves". -- The Village Voice"Block's extravagantly imaginative setting and finely honed perspectives remind the reader that there is magic everywhere". -- Publishers Weekly