Amherst, MA: Lynx House Press, (1992). SIGNED first edition - Award-winning mystery writer's second book, a collection of 10 short stories - "stories about family and about place. The family, most often, is an Italian-American family named, ironically, the Johnsons. The place, usually, is the vanishing edge of the California suburbs, where identity, culture, and desire merge in ways that defy easy stereotypes." SIGNED on the title page. 146 pp. ISBN: 0-89924081X.