Slipping the Moorings

These nine stories, which move effortlessly from the 19th to the 21st cennturies, take the reader to a Mexican colonial city for a Day of the Dead celebration, to visitors' day at a Glasgow prison, and to New York, London, Montral, and to the villages of Scotland's rugged coast. Bob Shacochis, National Book Award-winning author of Easy in the Isalnds and The Next New World, says "Slipping the Moorings overwhelms with grace, elegance, gravity, humor, intelligence and dare I say perfection."