New York: Anchor Books, (1998). SIGNED - The first novel by this award-winning poet and short story writer, a story imbued with magical realism - Tilo, a young woman from another time who is trained in the mystical art of spices travels through time in the gnarled and arthritic body of an old woman, to a shop in Oakland, California. INSCRIBED on the title page. 338 pp. ISBN: 0-385482388.