Disgraced and fired from his newspaper job, a young man returns to the Florida town of his birth to begin searching for a daughter he has only recently learned may exist and who could be at considerable risk.
Saints who murder, saints who gouge out their own eyes and hold them out for inspection, saints who minister to the petty and the bizarre and the maligned.
Set in the stark landscape of the desert southwest in some very near future, a young unwed mother must find her way in a world damaged by a ravaging bird flu epidemic and drought.
A quiet man living a domestic life with a wife he loves decides to turn the tables one night on two car thieves and, as a consequence, his life spirals into a nightmare.