content: There is no story and the characters are boring losers, young freak street people involved in endless self-destruction, getting high, getting nowhere and screwing whom ever, living in garbage with garbage. The main char paints her bedroom windows black with spider webbing and only allows the lumination of candles. How retarded. How DEPRESSING. I've seen 20+ years of that kind of people walking the streets of The City(San Francisco), I personally do not need nor want to read about it! Especially without any point or direction. Where's the story? What's the point?I quess if you happen to be into rude and grude kool-aid red dreadlocks, dope smokers/slammers, mushroom eaters and acidheads, ....this is your book.If Caitlin R. Kiernan could only get a rolling story going she'd be dynamite, CUZ SHE CAN WRITE AND WRITE READABLE (you know what i mean)!