The author of The Incantation of Frida K. traces her coming-of-age in Los Angeles in the 1950s, anti-war activities during her education at Berkeley, experiences with single motherhood within the east L.A. barrio, struggles with alcohol, and relocation after her marriage to New York's Allegheny Mountains.

Product Description: "I was born in rain and I will die in rain," begins Kate Braverman’s The Incantation of Frida K., an imagined life journey of Frida Kahlo. The book opens and closes inside the mind of Frida K., at 46, on her deathbed, taking us through a kaleidoscope of memories and hallucinations where we shiver for two hundred pages on the threshold of life and death, dream and reality, truth and myth...read more

Product Description: Written nearly a decade after Lithium for Medea, Palm Latitudes, Kate Braverman's second novel and arguably her chef d’oeuvre, explores the intertwined lives of three women who await absolution and revelation in the bougainvillea- and violence-filled "barrio" of Los Angeles...read more

Probes the strained relationships between a woman and her abrasive mother, her cancer-stricken father, an ex-husband who is permanently tuned into Star Trek, and Jason, her erotic but higly manipulative lover. Reprint.

A world of women living on life's edges on the West Coast, grasping at hope, permanence, and meaning in spite of their chronic dissociation and ennui, finds powerful realization in a collection of short stories that palpably recreates today's California. Original. UP. (view table of contents)

Newly arrived at her brother's home in 1960s L.A., teenager Jordan Lerner struggles to deal with her brother's terminal illness, her mother's dalliances with a string of men, and a school where she is considered an outcast.

Product Description: Book by Braverman, Kate

Single mothers, insolent daughters, blood sisters, and desperate friends people the tales in this twelve-story cycle, as they live out urban fairy tales and nightmares in the atmospheric landscape of Los Angeles

Probes the strained relationships between a woman and her abrasive mother, her cancer-stricken father, an ex-husband who is permanently tuned into Star Trek, and Jason, her erotic but higly manipulative lover