REVIEWS

"From the kitchens and bedrooms, apartments and hospitals of her Southern California, Jo-Ann Mpason finds and offers up the heart's agenda. She has extracted the living moment from ordinary scenes, writing about love, family, death and sex with a frank and refreshing empathy."
Ron Carson, author of News of the World, Truants

"Jo-Ann Mapson's Fault Line is carefully observed, beautifully written and profoundly felt. Mapson's voice is tender but tough, and in her work is a beguiling blend of vulnerability, humor and strength. I enjoyed this volume very much."
T. Jefferson Parker, author of Laguna Heat, Little Saigon

"...a tour through an unforgettable gallery of characters, both poignant and cantankerous. You and I might be able to see into the human heart with equal subtlety, to speak our minds like ticked-off angels, but only if we had someone as talented as Mapson to write our lines."
Donald A. Stanwood, author of Memory of Eva Ryker, Seventh Royale