"Fruitflesh calls for some very juicy feasting!" - Sark, author of Succulent Wild Woman "Anyone immersing herself in Fruitflesh is sure to find her writing liberated, and enriched by the many stimulating exercises." - Susan Perry, Ph.D., author of Writing in Flow "Gayle Brandeis shows us how to write sense-soaked prose and poetry that celebrates the embodiment of the life!" - Oriah Mountain Dreamer, author of The Invitation and The Dance "Beautifully...

"Award-winning novelist and poet Gayle Brandeis's wrenching memoir of her complicated family history and her mother's suicide Gayle Brandeis's mother disappeared just after Gayle gave birth to her youngest child. Several days later, her body was found: she had hanged herself in the utility closet of a Pasadena parking garage. In this searing, formally inventive memoir, Gayle describes the dissonance between being a new mother, a sweet-smelling infant...