Rennie Wilford is a Toronto freelance food-and-fashion journalist whose life has shattered around the edges. To recuperate, she flies to the tiny Caribbean island of St. Antoine. At first, she's merely looking for diversion. Then, suddenly, she finds that her rules for survival no longer apply, and she is brutally confronted by her own mortality. This novel contrasts the world of urban North American image-making, which surrounds and shapes us, with the other worlds both underneath and outside it. By turns comic, satiric, relentless and terrifying, this is ultimately an exploration of human defensiveness, the lust for power both sexual and political, and the need for a compassion that goes beyond what we ordinarily mean by love.
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