Cynthia Kadohata is the author of the novel The Floating World. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street. She is the recipient of a 1991 Whiting Writers Fellowship and lives in Los Angeles.

"An apocalyptic picture of America on the brink of civil disorder and social collapse. . . . The writing is lucid and finely honed, often lyrical and occasionally magical."

• Black PearlsA Cage of LightHopeFamily ManJewelPossibilitiesLike a Giant Game-Show BoardLong AgoOutpostTattoo CityNo One Would NoticeHeatInsolence"I Was Here"HelicoptersIn the Valley of Love

Cynthia Kadohata is the author of the novel The Floating World. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street. She is the recipient of a 1991 Whiting Writers Fellowship and lives in Los Angeles.

"An apocalyptic picture of America on the brink of civil disorder and social collapse. . . . The writing is lucid and finely honed, often lyrical and occasionally magical."

• Black PearlsA Cage of LightHopeFamily ManJewelPossibilitiesLike a Giant Game-Show BoardLong AgoOutpostTattoo CityNo One Would NoticeHeatInsolence"I Was Here"HelicoptersIn the Valley of Love

Cynthia Kadohata is the author of the novel The Floating World. Her short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and Grand Street. She is the recipient of a 1991 Whiting Writers Fellowship and lives in Los Angeles.

"An apocalyptic picture of America on the brink of civil disorder and social collapse. . . . The writing is lucid and finely honed, often lyrical and occasionally magical."

• Black PearlsA Cage of LightHopeFamily ManJewelPossibilitiesLike a Giant Game-Show BoardLong AgoOutpostTattoo CityNo One Would NoticeHeatInsolence"I Was Here"HelicoptersIn the Valley of Love