![]() ![]() Tonight, Vincent is tending the bar and the staff is anticipating Alkaitis to arrive at any moment. The hotel is owned by a rich man called Jonathan Alkaitis. There is an isolated glass hotel here, that allows rich patrons to experience wilderness without having to give up any comforts of modern world. Skip a few years and both Paul and Vincent are back in their remote hometown in Canada, Caiette, which can only be reached by a boat. His half-sister, a troubled teenager grieving over her lost mother to a young woman in the city putting her life together as a waitress. ![]() As he tells us about his wandering, aimless life studying finance at the university and a chance outing leading to death of a musical band member through drug overdose, we start to get a sense of the disjointedness of this world. He is obviously trying to remember the past memories that are partially lost to him. We listen to Paul as he tells his story to a counselor. While I would not have picked up the book solely based on the cover page, it will make sense once you are in the story. The title is made up of white dots that are disintegrating like the graffiti made by an acid marker pen on glass. The book cover shows the glass wall overlooking at the midnight blue ocean dotted with dark woods. ![]()
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