In this surreal fantastical novel, one of the themes is the nature of love. For example:��"On more than one occasion I have been ready to abandon my whole life for love. To alter everything that makes sense to me and to move into a different world where the only known will be the beloved. Such a sacrifice must be the result of love . . . or is it that the life itself was already worn out? I had finished with that life, perhaps, and could not admit it, being stubborn or afraid, or perhaps did not know it, habit being a great binder.��" think it is often so that those most in need of change choose to fall in love and then throw up their hands and blame it all on fate. But is is not fate, at least not if fate is something outside of us; it is a choice made in secret after nights of longing."��But don't read this book for any guidance in these treacherous waters. It is more a celebration of the problem, of the complexity of our experience, of the irrational sparkling connections within the pattern of our lives.