Sexy, telegraphic, edgy, and rapt. . . . Exquisitely visual, cuttingly witty, Moore s poems are at once cool and searing. Booklist

Paul Moore s vocation as an Episcopal priest took him with his wife, Jenny, and their family of nine children from robber-baron wealth to work among the urban poor, leadership in the civil rights and peace movements, and two decades as the bishop of New York. The Bishop s Daughter is his daughter s story of that complex, visionary man: a chronicle of her turbulent relationship with a father who struggled privately with his sexuality while she openly explored hers and a searching account of the consequences of sexual secrets."

An icon of avant-garde art in the 1920s, Margarett Sargent is nearly unknown today. In a haunting and evocative weave of biography and memoir, her granddaughter unearths for the first time the life of this spirited and brilliant woman, who was committed to self-expression--even at the cost of marriage and family. in color.

In OTHER DESERT CITIES, Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents after a six-year absence. A once-promising novelist, she announces to her family the imminent publication of a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family's history - a wound that her parents don't want reopened. Brooke has come home to draw a line in the sand and is daring her family to cross it. Her brother won't play her game; her aunt knows way too much, and her parents fall into all their old routines as they plead with her to keep their story quiet. In this family, secrets are currency...