New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel which explores the ideas of haunting and being haunted, of absence being as much of a shape as presence is. "A young woman sees the same mysterious face at each stop of a cross-country train trip. A gay psychiatrist is haunted by the ever-encroaching specter of AIDS. These are the intertwining threads of this gothic-tinged literary ghost tale set in Seattle." 369 pp. ISBN: 0-393038653.