Bleeding Light

A howl into the void, a ghost story, and a bit of a metaphysical hellride. A misanthropic ghostwriter roams an island off the Kenyan coast. An Arizona teenager awaits the next stage in a secretive covenant. A renowned poet retraces her past amid a baffling netherworld. An international arms dealers son drifts through time, atoning for the death of the man he loved. For readers who take their contemporary fiction with a tinge of the otherworldly, Bleeding Light is about mystical experiences, the symbolic fabric connecting us all, and desperate people seeking affirmationthrough religious, cosmic, chemical and other meansof a world beyond their own. Its a grimly funny and often trippy take on transcendence in a hypercommodified age. "A darkly gleaming marvel. Searing, creepy and mysticalas if Don DeLillo had set out to steal Paulo Coelho's flock."Sean Michaels, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner and author of The Wagers