A Brief History of Camoflague
from Linda Rogers, San Francisco Chronicle:
...Thaisa Frank's stories read like frontline reports from
the ongoing guerilla warfare that engulfs families today.
Written in a terse, economic style, they are capable of packing
an emotional punch that will leave the reader gasping in
recognition.
from Robert Hurwitt, East Bay
Express:
Curiously compelling scenes of domestic magical realism in
which wives struggle to remember long-forgotten former husbands
and spies cope with sexual geography.
from Irving Malin, Review of Contemporary Fiction:
This oddly beautiful collection of stories....[is] duplicitous,
hallucinatory, mysterious....Frank continually startles us.
She alerts us to the fact that we are always on the edge,
never knowing who we are, why we live, why we exist. Thinking
is 'camouflage'--the terrifying condition of life.
from Terri Harden, Small Press Magazine:
This collection of stories brilliantly examines the detachment
within intimacy which seem to plague men and women today....shows
wit and invention...arresting and thought-provoking.
from Karen Kevorkian, Express Books:
Frank...reels you in with phrases of such precision they have
the authority of revelation....Her writing is so economical
and tight, the stories feel like fabulous artifacts.
from Cara Diaconoff, Indiana Review:
These stories interweave overtly symbolic strands of narrative
with wryly observed details of ordinary domestic life in
such a way that not only deepens our notions of the ordinary
but startles us into fresh ways of looking at the particular
symbol....controlled, yet passionate.
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