Cris Mazza strives to elucidate the...

Cris Mazza strives to elucidate the true small and yet complex universes created by means of couples. There is, of course, a great deal to explore even in those tight confines. however oddly, the light of her prosaic seems never to fall upon anything rare, wild, or recently made known The men in her novels are in such a manner underdeveloped they are almost sprites The women are elusive, passive, inarticulate, powerless. Almost everyone looks to be like marionettes with their strings wound

The cores of Mazza's three novels published on Coffee House Press consist of partially fulfilled relationships between confused, somewhat impotent