Lisa had written 2 little books. One a dictionary of cooking had only one entry per letter but they were gorgeous. I flipped through it reading only the final entry. A picture of cars then waves then Southern African Americans walking up to the shore for a picnic. The black and white of the foam receding on the sand. The word was Zuckering and I wasn't familiar with the term. The definition faded into the photo and I couldn't make out all the words so I still have no idea what it means. She included a brilliant recipe for hummus.
The 2nd book started out as a mystery "someone & someone do something" kind of thing. It was also little and full of fashion drawings and photos. The first images showed her & her boyfriend dressing for a series of dinner/dance evenings---------or various attempts to dress for a single evening (it seems that he couldn't figure out what to wear and their outfits needed to match. In most they were wearing complementary ruffly looks. Lisa in a ruffly dress. grey. Him in a darker shaded ruffly shirt. In a few photos he is wearing a shirt of Lisa's since he'd run out of his own to try.) Flipping through I see photos--mostly black and white of runway shows where girls wear long flowy dresses with ribbon backs. I see a hem of chiffon. Yellows over oranges and a crisscrossing of lots of ribbon. Occasionally a photo is in color. A soft bright view of pastel. An image of jackets. But now the book has changed. A blue skirt. A puffed sleeve. It's no longer a mystery and has become a dictionary too. The jackets were a type "occasional jackets" or maybe "diverse jackets" made in the 20's by some tart couturier.
The books were part of a workshop or set of books I was given free to critique. I remember one was a laminated card deck supposed to provide information on either computers or magic which had very poor printing quality. Most were books though and looking through there were only 2 worth anything and they turned out to be Lisa's (or as her name appeared in them "Luciana").