'Young adult novelist Block ("I Was a Teenage Fairy, " 1998) moves into the adult market in a series of unusual tales tied together by lyrical sex.'

In a latest installment of the popular Weetzie Bat series, forty-year-old Weetzie ends her once-passionate relationship with secret agent Max and checks into an enchanted pink hotel, where she meets an otherworldly host of fawns, ange...

A Midwestern girl named for the jewel that is believed to ward off evil spirits, Ruby has a sixth sense that makes her at one with nature and gives her the ability to know her own fate. After growing up in an abusive family, Ruby esc...