Fiction. The noted collaborative team of Ascher/Straus contemplates the materials of the writer's life--"what get cannibalized into fiction but doesn't get treated as fiction itself"--in this new work, which explores the boundary between novel and notebook. A novel that takes up the tasks of the journal can also be read as a journal that documents the materials in the novel. In ABC STREET the narrative of place and life of the mind work together to build up a panoramic view of related lives with no epic pretensions. Other collaborative efforts by this team include THE MENACED ASSASSIN, THE OTHER PLANET, and RED MOON/RED LAKE, all available from SPD.