Communion Town: a city in ten chapters

Each of us conjures our own city, one of many incarnations; a place throbbing with so many layers, meanings, and hidden corners cannot be the same for any two citizens.

Communion Town calls to mind David Mitchell's Ghostwritten, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, and China Mieville's The City & The City, but is uniquely its own.This iridescent novel maps an imaginary city and explores the lives of its outcasts and scapegoats.

As the novel unfolds in different neighborhoods, we encounter a lovelorn folksinger, a repressed detective, a slaughterhouse worker, a lost tourist, a bon vivant, and a ghost.

From their lonely voices we gather the many-faceted story of the city: a place imagined differently by each citizen as he or she searches for connection, transformation, or escape.