Perles is at the end of his rope. Disgusted by the hypocrisy he sees everywhere about him in his own social milieu, and sickened by his own inability to make more of his life's opportunities, he has immersed himself in the sorrows and inequities of an inner-city slum substratum. He seeks penance and purpose there, but instead finds more grief than he can handle and terrifying reason to believe that he's become a blackout serial killer of the neighborhood's prostitutes. Into this world of sex trafficking and exploitation comes Solania, an enchanting young woman who may be a prophetess of her people, and who seems to know more about Perles than he might wish or could ever dare to hope. Charming, charismatic, mysterious Solania proves to be the flashpoint for a disenfranchised and desperate people.In his beautiful, intimate portrait of a disadvantaged neighbourhood and its people, G.E.M. Munro gives us a novel that's as much a lyrical, passionate love song as it is an explosive social commentary
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