New spin on the legendary love affair of Anais Nin and Henry Miller, this time in 1978, pre-AIDS San Francisco. The themes are identity in all its manifestations--personal, ethinic and gender--and the conflict of personal loyalty versus sexual obsession. Complementing the author's earlier novel Fool Me Once, Gomez brings a fresh cast of characters to another fully realized Bay Area setting. Edgy, erotic, loaded with surprises and beautifully written. "Ingenious," says California poet B.L. Kennedy, to which novelist Persia Wooley adds, "A rich canvas of love...and deceit, with delightful doses of black humor."