The Book Band

Publisher: Seraphim Editions
Genre: fiction; short stories
Format: trade paperback; 226 pages
Price: $18.95

Covering the lifespan of women from childhood to old age, the stories in this collection explore how the fabric of women's dreams and aspirations become so entangled with attire that the dress and the dream become one and the same.

Review: "... [an] often moving story collection ... [in Anonymous Cloth] the tone and dramatic art are carefully wrought, Scharper's controlled expression and understatement touchingly illuminating Lei's life." - Jim Bartley, The Globe and Mail

Review: "In each of the stories of the volume, an inanimate object and the simple act of 'dressing' ... become a means by which the extraordinary erupts in the ordinary, sometimes incandescently, and sometimes with an uncommon fury."   - Michael W. Higgins, telegrapjournal.com