Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town -

Cory Doctorow

Tor Books

2005

320 páginas

10h 40m

ISBN-10: 0765312808

Alan appears to be a middle-aged entrepreneur who has just moved into a bohemian section of Toronto with the dream of writing. He is goodhearted, outgoing, and -- unbeknownst to most -- totally inhuman. With a family that is "uncatalogued and unclassified in human knowledge" (his father is a gigantic heap of dirt; his mother is an appliance; and his brothers include Russian nesting dolls, an island, and a sadistic zombie), Alan has his fair share of secrets. But so, too, does his neighbor. An enigmatic young woman with wings growing out of her back, she gets drawn into Alan's search for his vengeance-obsessed brother, as Alan becomes involved in her struggle to somehow remove her wings permanently and escape the clutches of an abusive boyfriend.