Haunted by the past, drifting through the present, a young man looks for reconciliation, but answers seem difficult to come by. This is a thoughtful, meandering, episodic novel that offers no easy resolutions.
Extract
Often it seemed to him there was nothing but a series of accidents to connect people he had known. They had all just flashed up like meteorites, sparks in emptiness. Some of the dead too were as alive in his mind as the living. One day he might even walk into a bar somewhere and meet his father, sit with him for an hour, and talk about the times they should have had.
