Fiction. In DISTANCE NO OBJECT, Gloria Frym turns her ironic, passionate gaze to post-Vietnam Berkeley and San Francisco. Private lives are still swept along by the currents of history, as in the sixties. But the names of the wars have changed...the bombs fall on Iraq, and the war on poverty becomes a war against the poor. The stories of DISTANCE NO OBJECT evoke the deep frustrations between generations, friends, neighbors, and races. Yet civility, quotidian justice, a common language, and new love is imagined...and Kafka takes his true bride.

"Put Gloria Frym's splendidly knowing vision of the urban with Grace Paley's and Stephen Dixon's. Her voice is tender, searching, and ever so slightly insolent—you greet these stories like friends stopping by unannounced, friends so beguiling that you wish they'd stay longer than they do."—Jonathan Lethem

"Gloria Frym's stories strike me as going directly to the heart in a rational way. They hurt by being clear and reasonable—like William Carlos Williams's poetry, say. But hurt doesn't mean hurt, exactly; it means affected in a necessary way."—Alice Notley

Author City: BERKELEY, CA USA

Gloria Frym was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Los Angeles, and spent many years in New Mexico. She lives in Berkeley and teaches at California College of the Arts in the Bay Area.