Michael’s Reviews > The Janissary Tree > Status Update

“Every city has districts that teeter on the fringes of respectabiliny, regardless of how close they lie to the moneyed and desirable center. Hower
roomy the houses, however convenient they seem, they are always tainted
in some indefinable way by the incessant passage of other people: people
who take their lodgings by the week, or even by the night; people who come and go, and may or may not come back again”