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Praise for Cool Gray City of Love: 49 Views of San Francisco

“I can’t imagine there’s anyone who knows San Francisco better than Gary Kamiya.”
— Dave Eggers
“Kamiya’s symphony of San Francisco is a grand pleasure.”
— Clara Jeffery, The New York Times Book Review
“A rhapsody to San Francisco of unique value...America’s great metropolitan village, this ‘window open to the world,’ elegant and absurd, has its defining lyrical panorama for a generation or longer.”
— Herbert Gold, San Francisco Chronicle
“I think it’s a truly lovely work about the most lovable of cities, and I very much wish I’d written it!”
— Jan Morris, author of "The World of Venice" and "Conundrum"
“Thanks to Gary Kamiya’s engaging history, guide, and love letter to San Francisco, I reexperienced the imaginative resonance, enduring urbanism, and pedestrian pathways of my native city.”
— Kevin Starr, University Professor, University of Southern California and author of "California" and "Golden Gate"