New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 2000 This is the author's debut novel. It is about a woman named Naomi Ash, and Train Line, the town she lives in. The town is full of psychics, levitators, mind readers and all manner of occult practices. Beautifully written, this is a novel of secrets and lies, of a young woman's vision; of fakery, fraud and hovering spirits. It unveils a world where the secrets of the dead cannot stay buried and where Naomi's past must confront her precarious present. The... more information

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