When novelist Johnny Coma's daughter comes back from the dead as a talking octopus, will he be finally be able to write her story? Will his estranged wife, renowned war photographer Vivienne Pink, believe him? In this stunning follow-up to her visionary desert novel Death Valley, Susan returns to the lives of these troubled artists, haunted by the death of their young daughter, killed outside their home, as they search for healing in separate cities and with new lovers.
