California Shorts Paperback – April 1, 1999 by Steven Gilbar (Editor)
 
From Booklist
The State of California's reputation is surely as vast as its landmass, equated at once with unimaginably weird trends and scenery of breathtaking beauty. Like a series of crisp snapshots, this satisfying collection of stories presents picturesque vignettes that capture a moody, mythic landscape bracketed by boundaries where ethnic enclaves exist alongside regions of luxurious exile. Such conspicuous contrasts are focused in on by the agile prose we have come to expect from Alice Adams, Greg Sarris, and other well-known masters of the short-story form. Editor Gilbar introduces fresh new literary voices as well, who collectively record revelatory, wide-ranging visions of contemporary California in a rich panoply of characters and images. Alice Joyce
 
2.6/2.8