Francesca Lia Block

The author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning Weetzie Bat books offers a compelling celebration of the first year of her child's life. Guarding the Moon chronicles the joys and terrors of motherhood, from the early stages of the author's pregnancy through her baby's first birthday. This unique but far-reaching story makes for a gem of a ...

But this is what I could not give up: I could not give up myself Psyche has known...

Navigating the world of dating can be like wandering an enchanted forest, full of creatures with peculiar habits and baffling behavior. In Wood Nymph Seeks Centaur, Francesca Lia Block provides a guide to this often-treacherous terrain, classifying all those mystifying men and women into various types of mythical forest fauna-Fauns and Werewolve...

“[Francesca Lia] Block writes about the real Los Angeles better than anyone since Raymond Chandler.”—The New York Times Book Review“[Block] uses language like a jeweled sword glittering as it cuts to the heart.”—Kirkus ReviewsAfter enduring from afar a seemingly endless series of outside worldwide disasters—including 9/11 and the Asian tsunami—w...