Eliza's Orange

Imagine a world changing so fast that you have no fixed reference points, and all that you imagined would be is transmogrifying before your eyes. Such was the world of Southern California in 1932, as the peaceful, former Spanish colony, with traditions of gracious living, and the delights of orange groves (thanks to Eliza Tibbits smuggling seeedlings in from Brazil) became the brash, new-money world of Hollywood. Eliza's Orange is a novel that transmogrifies as you read it, shifting tenses, moving between past and present, until you imagine that perhaps you are in a movie ... but definitely not in a place you know. Eliza's Orange is an experimental novel, looking into warped carnival glass at a shimmering, unreal reflection.