New York: Grove Press, (2003). Hardcover first edition - The author's very highly praised first novel, set in the Seattle working class suburb called Federal Way. The characters are "lost in various modes of darkness and despair. . . What binds them is the Well -- that dark, barren Wasteland of the heart and mind -- as if trapped at the bottom of a well, they search for relief, for a vehicle into the light they know is up and outside." 274 pp. ISBN: 0-802117511.