New York: Simon & Schuster, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a story of a young sculptor in San Francisco, who descends into a tailspin of mourning, and violent dangerous sex, after her older sister is murdered in a motel in a Sierra ghost town. Winner of the James Jone Literary Society Award for best first novel. Promotional postcard laid in. 269 pp. ISBN: 0-684-855895.