{"product_id":"california-transit-diane-lefer-9781932511475","title":"California Transit: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"From the world that could not be saved, the storyteller salvages small, strange stuff and assembles it into a narrative of alarming beauty and mystery and sadness.\"--from the introduction by Carole Maso\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSouthern California: land of dislocation and assimilation, a place Diane Lefer knows well. In\u003ci\u003e California Transit, \u003c\/i\u003e she uses conversational prose and macabre wit to zero-in on a Mexican woman detained indefinitely by immigration officials, isolating her from her American family; a zoo employee considering what to do with a euthanized antelope's head; and, in the title novella, a lonely woman, riding buses all day, who cannot avert the violence building within her. This collection explores the difference between justice and law through a lens unfiltered by moralistic or didactic intention. Like a surveillance camera meant to record crime, not stop it, Lefer presents a world gone wrong, not because of people's hatred for one another but because of their impossible, unfulfilled yearning to connect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eDiane Lefer\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of two previous collections, \u003ci\u003eThe Circles I Move In\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVery Much Like Desire, \u003c\/i\u003e and the novel \u003ci\u003eRadiant Hunger.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in Los Angeles, where she is an artistic associate of Playwrights' Arena, volunteers with the Program for Torture Victims, and serves on the animal behavior observation team of the research department at the Los Angeles Zoo. She teaches in the MFA writing program at Vermont College of the Union Institute \u0026amp; University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Diane Lefer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1932511474\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781932511475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.99h x 6.35w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/19\/2007 pg. 149\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2007 pg. 188","brand":"Diane Lefer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47474277974271,"sku":"9781932511475","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f87b66d8-2e1f-487c-bbd7-aa543769801b.jpg?v=1762315834","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/california-transit-diane-lefer-9781932511475","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}