Fiction. Communiques from the fray, from the sullied midst of botched human interaction. Astute roman-a-clef tales of the snobbish, the rarified, and the ridiculous. Rower offers up precise hyperrealist portraits of alienation in and out of our time and place. These are sublime satirical adventures, through the '70s and '80s, through Soho and LSD. "Astonishing, utterly charming and unabashedly autobiographical. IF YOU'RE A GIRL is as intentional as the finest fiction, yet reads like a person letter or a conversation late at night"--David Ulin, L.A. Weekly,