This document provides information about the short story collection "Silk: Stories" by Grace Dane Mazur. It summarizes that the collection contains 11 subtly connected stories that take readers around the world and appeal to the senses. The stories evoke vivid and lush scenes through precise details that create memorable experiences. Reviews praise the collection as coherently working together and for its sensual imagery, foreign flavors, and layered themes that provide rich texture. Order information is provided at the end for the book publisher Brookline Books.

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Silk: Stories
Stories by Grace Dane Mazur ISBN 1-57129-028-1 • $15.95 SC
An evocative and atmospheric first collection of stories, Silk is about people who
are far from home, all in their way, discovering life, death, and eros. Mazur
skillfully evokes the senses -the acrid, custardy fruit ofthe durian followed by the
strawberry-like mangosteen. The pollen-heavy air in Paris, one can almost smell
it, the Vietnamese grocery, the color and spice of a lover on a certain afternoon.
These stories are orchestrated brilliantly -sketching vivid, lush scenes, while
recording with the scientists' precision the details that create memory.
"Mazur takes her readers on a journey around the world in 11 subtly connected
stories that are meant to appeal to the senses and the gypsy spirit. In Singapore,
she evokes the smell of orange trees; in Paris the griffins and monkeys perched on
an old cathedral; in Boston the `beginning pulses of the wind' as a hurricane
begins ... Mazur's writing is generously descriptive and lyrical and her dialogue is
subtly apt, but most of all it is rare to find a collection that works as coherently as
this." — Publishers Weekly
"With its sensual imagery, foreign flavors, and layered themes, this is a richly
textured collection." — Booklist
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