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Unmarried and in his 60s, Dan Shaper lives alone and works as an interpreter for the San Francisco courts. He'd sown a few wild oats in his time, but has long ago settled into routine -- the same coffeeshop for breakfast, the same newspaper...
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But one day a phone call turns his life upside down. It's the 19-year-old daughter he never knew existed. And no ordinary daughter, but one who carries in her wake a bizarre group of associates. She is a "therapist" at "The Yerba Buena Foundation" -- an institution where the staff tends to share the patient's couch. Talk about color in your life!
Gold is one of the most justly praised novelists of the postbeat generation and his current novels, with their wry, knowing take on San Francisco are also both literary joys and insightful sorrows.

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