From the author of the critically beloved Pym Imagine Kurt Vonnegut having a beer with Ralph Ellison and Jules Verne.—Vanity Fair comes a ruthlessly comic and moving tale of a man discovering a lost daughter, confronting an elusive ghost, and stumbling onto the possibility of utopia. In the ghetto there is a mansion, and it is my fathers house. Warren Duffy has returned to America for all the worst reasons His marriage to a beautiful Welsh woman has come apart his comics shop in Cardiff has failed and his Irish American father has died, bequeathing to Warren his last possession, a roofless, half-renovated mansion in the heart of black Philadelphia. On his first night in his new home, Warren spies two figures outside in the grass. When he screws up the nerve to confront them, they disappear.
