Kate Faraday: 2 books

How a family deals with its "too much" child determines the weight of her emotional inheritance. These five poems chart one daughter's struggle to articulate and break the mundane taboos of a joyless suburban family. Her survival and escape are sometimes wrenching but mostly sweet, funny and inspiring.

War and Love are grand themes, too big for any work to hold. These six poems personalize some of the complexities and examine their impact both within the emotional landscape and from outside it. Sometimes funny, sometimes bleak, Taste Changes with Fever is a look into hidden corners of modern thinking.