New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - First novel (second book) by this Northern Calfornia writer, set mostly in New York City and the Philippines - about "the effects that an encounter at gunpoint can have on the life of a (previously assured) young woman." Cover praise from Amy Tan, Joan Didion and others. 190 pp. ISBN: 1-400040272.