ASIN: B00BEFUBA4
Publisher: Liberty Environment Press
Pages: 305
Thirty thousand years from now, in a universe much like our own, Alessandra studies an ancient legend. She has her doubts about the archaeology, but this much seems clear: the city we know as Portland, Oregon was named Jonesborough, and people made babies by singing cheek to cheek. The legend goes like this. An unusual girl and a telepathic dog tune in to the mind of a lame-legged chess prodigy as rough arms wrangle him into a van. A burly hermit strides up the steps of City Hall to protest her farm's foreclosure. An alien exiled to Earth longs for the fragrant red meadows of her-his native world. These characters form a pentagram, like the one dangling from the girl's neck. Pentagrams are scary, the dog thinks. But Mildred disagrees. A pentagram is a grounding figure. When her mother schedules her exorcism, Mildred runs away, drawn to the boy with the limp. As dozens of ...
