Francesca Lia Block is an amazing
writer whose books are very well-received by the
young adult community. However, they are not geared *only* toward
older younger readers; they are
beautiful and
poetic and have something for all ages, even if they are marketed mostly to a "
young adult" audience. I started reading and liking her material when I was already in
college, for instance, and she does also write some
adult material, such as her erotic short stories book,
Nymph. If you like to step into an
alternate world, into a
world hauntingly like our own but where
magical things happen, a world that is really just our own with the
magic revealed, then you would like her work. She is responsible for the following
masterpieces:
Short stories:
- "Blood Oranges" (unpublished)
- "Safe Love" (published in Seventeen magazine)
- "The Box" (published in anthology Trapped! by Lois Duncan)
- "Winnie and Tommy" (originally published as "Winnie and Cubby" in Girl Goddess #9, published again in anthology Am I Blue? by Marion Dane Bauer)
- "Blue" (originally published in Girl Goddess #9, published again in anthology When I Was Your Age)
Ms. Block also has two books of
poetry that are unavailable to the
dirty public such as myself:
Moon Harvest and
Season of Green. They were published by small presses and that's why they're so unavailable. Ms. Block was a
teenager when they were published. She wrote a nonfiction book with another author about how to make
zines as well.
In any case, her other books come highly recommended for anyone who enjoys mainly realistic fiction but doesn't mind a touch of spice or pixy dust once in a while.