Parole Officer Maria Peres confronts Brooklyn's volatile streets
and disturbing incidents in her own past while hunting a parole
violator who has committed a particularly heinous crime. More
profoundly, the novel explores a young woman's search for a
meaningful life in a flawed world where morality is relative and
terrible acts are committed gratuitously.
The poetry of one of the novel's characters provides a further
level of exploration. While ostensibly narrating the Aztec's fall
to the conquistadors, the verse, by suggesting a parallel between
the historical characters in the poem and the characters in the
novel itself, leads to reflections on the ambiguous nature of
individuality and its relationship to the past.
This inward journey uses flashbacks and time shifts to create an
ambiance of simultaneity as well as a portrait of the city-a city
that emerges as one of the novel's unifying themes.
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