Description: "A beautifully sustained and compassionate book about the lost, written in the voice of Camden, a young girl who is, predictably rather than suddenly, abandoned in a healing "camp" halfway up a Mountain in California. Intelligent and wary, she does not ask for sympathy or let anyone, including the reader, near-her voice is cool, sarcastic and resigned, though Ursula Pflug's mastery gives us the continuous sense of what is not said. This is not a novel of the expected. In the stagnant daily routines on the Mountain (mud and latrines and wet clothes form a large part), the isolation of each from each, the loss of family and attempts to create new bonds however fragile, there is a continuous sense of this book's being written in the shadow of real migrant camps. This is a novel that does not allow us to turn away." --Heather Spears, author of The Strong Box "A delicate, bittersweet story full of big ideas, told in sumi-e brushstrokes set against a large-scale canvas, from master Canadian fantasist Ursula Pflug." --Candas Jane Dorsey, author of A Paradigm of Earth

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