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 dealer's 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.

It's 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