Bookfinding help please.
Okay folks, here's the deal. I have a friend currently living on an air mattress in my room due to being temporarily kicked out of Germany. As a result, I hauled her off to a business meeting for Boskone which while looking to be a lovely time, does have a lot of details that need to be hashed out at this point in the year. And she has no idea what's going on, but she was surrounded by floor to ceiling shelves of SF/F books for about four hours. And this got her to pondering a book she read once and has never been able to find again.

So here is all she remembers about it, and we would appreciate anything else anyone can recall. I seem to remember this book as well, which is why this is driving me nuts now too.


(And in a quick plug, Boskone is particularly interested in artists submitting to the art show, and it's fairly cheap to buy panel space. End plug.)

ETA: And as usual, y'all are fabulous for showing me where to look for information. Thanks guys!