Fusing autobiography, memoir and satire, Douglas Isaac's first book Altered Biography (Arsenal $15.95) is about the reincarnation of a man and a woman as sperm and ovum. The narrative careens recklessly from a Soho loft-like womb to an operating room to a fallopian tube-to depict an amoral millennial society of lost souls. Isaac lives in Vancouver. 1-55152-072-9

[BCBW AUTUMN 1999]