"A lightly comedic, historical novel, Arroyo tells the parallel stories of a solar-dreaming young man and his semi-clairvoyant, impish mutt during two distinct epochs in Pasadena, California: 1913, as the landmark Colorado Street Bridge suffers a lethal collapse during construction but opens in the fanfare of the automobile age anyway; and 1993, as the refurbished bridge commemorates its 80th birthday in a marquee suburb-one that is perhaps not quite...

"Portia Cuthcart and her two sisters find their way from Texas to Manhattan over the years, the heiresses to a dilapidated brownstone on the Upper West Side. Portia is running from a bad divorce and the knowledge that she has always been a little bit different, a little bit strange: the talented cook who knew exactly what to serve on what occasion, even to the point of predicting events that hadn't even happened yet. But she doesn't cook anymore....