In a Hollow Land

When Limerick Specter's uncle Luster reappears, years after his father's suicide and his mother's unexplained disappearance, he has little idea the turn his life is about to take. Having lost his job, his home and his girlfriend, Lim is enlisted by his uncle to help a young Romanian woman search for her kidnapped sister, the victim of forced prostitution. Exploring the intersection of magic and science, reason and intuition, the miraculous and the everyday, the novel follows their search amid Lim's struggle to forge a new life.