On the Banks of the River of Heaven presents fourteen stories by
Richard Parks, an "unrepentant storyteller," according to Locus
Magazine. In his third collection, you'll find stories about a ghoul
with an identity crisis; a girl who can be anyone she wants except
herself; a woman from heaven and a man very much from earth; gardening
tips from hell; ten aspects of a goddess all searching for one wayward
husband, and many other thrilling wonders.
With his light touch and imaginative storytelling, Parks takes readers
into the past as well as the future, to lands foreign as well as
nearby, and from matters sublime to ones familiar (but never trivial
or predictable). One of the most versatile fantasists of his
generation, for Parks it is never style over the substance (or the
other way around) -- it is always a seamless melding of both.