A miracle can come from combining the incompatible. Or it might not. But if it does happen, something opens up that helps get closer to solving the riddle of life—or at least to touch it.
The paths of the heroes of this novel were not supposed to cross. He and she—both of them outsiders: a homeless woman and a TV star—live in different layers of society, and even in different times. And yet they intersected. This unusual collision sparks unusual feelings. A small encyclopedia of the days we live, astonishment before a person, a declaration of love to language—alive and inexhaustible—that’s what this book is made of.