A Good Day for Seppuku Stories by KateBraverman Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2018 by City Lights Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-721-5, ISBN: 0-87286-721-8
" Haunting new stories about girls on the brink of adulthood, women on the verge of breakdowns, and families undone by past deceptions. "Kate Braverman is a writer of astonishing versatility and lyricism. Her stories are brilliantly rendered, painfully intimate portraits of individuals who come alive on the page as if illuminated by strobe lighting. With remarkable precision she tracks the restless motions of a mind searching for its ref ..."
"Kate Braverman grew up in Los Angeles in the late 1950s at the time when glitz was just beginning to be manufactured. Her Los Angeles was made up of stucco tenements, welfare, and the marginalized. It wasn't a destination city, it was the end of the line. Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles chronicles the trajectory of Braverman's Left Coast generation with a voice of singular power. She was an antiwar activist in Berkeley, a ..."
Palm Latitudes A Novel by KateBraverman Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2003 by Seven Stories Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-572-1, ISBN: 1-58322-572-2
"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. Frances Ramos is a voluptuous prostitute who flaunts her wealth and is held in high esteem by the local street gangs. Gloria Hernandez is a dutiful young wife and m ..."
The Incantation of Frida K.(1st Edition) by KateBraverman Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2002 by Seven Stories Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-469-4, ISBN: 1-58322-469-6
""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. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wound ..."
Small Craft Warnings(1st Edition) Stories (Western Literature Series) by KateBraverman Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1998 by University Of Nevada Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87417-321-5, ISBN: 0-87417-321-3
""We are all homeless women, crash victims, chance survivors," Kate Braverman announces in her lush, atmospheric collection of short fiction, Small Craft Warnings. Or, put another way, "Sometimes women must go traveling." The disassociated protagonists of these stories are travelers of a psychic if not a physical sort, homeless women by nature if not in fact. Living through the long, bright California of the soul, they find themselves se ..."
""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. Defiant and uncompromising, Frida bears the wound ..."
"“El Niño burns with a radiance and intensity. It speaks in tongues as all visionary art does. …the novel refuses conventional borders and strategies. It doesn’t compromise.” –Kate Braverman, Los Angeles Times. Originally published by Viking under the author’s real name, Douglas Anne Munson, in 1990."
Squandering the Blue(1st Edition) by KateBraverman Hardcover, 241 Pages, Published 1990 by Fawcett Columbine ISBN-13: 978-0-449-90551-7, ISBN: 0-449-90551-9
"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"
Palm Latitudes by KateBraverman Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1989 by Penguin (Non-Classics) ISBN-13: 978-0-14-012640-2, ISBN: 0-14-012640-6
LITHIUM FOR MEDIA(1st Edition) A NOVEL [CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN FICTION] by KateBraverman Paperback, 251 Pages, Published 1989 by Penguin Usa (P) ISBN-13: 978-0-14-012641-9, ISBN: 0-14-012641-4
"To tell her erotic, moving story, Ms. Braverman has chosen a style which makes one wish to resurrect freshness into that overused adjective 'brilliant.' Ms. Braverman is a powerful writer." — John Rechy "This first novel is a contemporary horror ..."
"Sixty-three stories in prose and verse by women on the subject of failed romances. They chronicle partings at various stages of a relationship and describe the accompanying frame of mind: anger, relief, self-doubt."
Wonders of the West(1st Edition) by KateBraverman Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 1993 by Fawcett ISBN-13: 978-0-449-90656-9, ISBN: 0-449-90656-6
"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."
Lithium for Medea(1st Edition) by KateBraverman Paperback, Published 1981 by Pinnacle Books ISBN-13: 978-0-523-41185-9, ISBN: 0-523-41185-5
"Book by Braverman, Kate"
Lullaby for Sinners(1st Edition) by KateBraverman Paperback, 110 Pages, Published 1981 by Pinnacle Books ISBN-13: 978-0-523-41539-0, ISBN: 0-523-41539-7
Lullaby for Sinners(1st Edition) Poems by KateBraverman 88 Pages, Published 1980 by Harper & Row ISBN-13: 978-0-06-010439-9, ISBN: 0-06-010439-2
A Good Day for Seppuku Stories by KateBraverman 192 Pages, Published 2018 by City Lights Books ISBN-13: 978-0-87286-722-2, ISBN: 0-87286-722-6
"That's camouflage. Mrs. Stein actually spends summers in the Sisyphean search for her prostitute daughter in Los Angeles. These are some of the tales told in Kate Braverman's audacious new story collection."