Salve

Salve, in seamless prose, examines the myriad ways in which we soothe ourselves in an attempt to treat what ails us-- for better or for worse.
"Harsh and beautiful, yearning and deadly, the stories of Soma Mei Sheng Frazier will remind you of nothing less than the whole wide world." -- Daniel Handler, AKA Lemony Snicket
"Brilliant is a word usually associated with diamonds; therefore, this is the appropriate word for Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, who writes like a young Toni Morrison: clear, clean, yet heart skipping for all the things she is not telling. Crisp. Deliciously enticing as the story unfolds. Soma is a wonderful writer on the rise. Perhaps I should have started this story with the first star of evening, visible to our planet but harking of another shore, lighting our sky. We walk the beach with her. And the tide pulls the diamonds to our hands." -- Nikki Giovanni