Amruta Patil

"They were inseparable--until the day they jumped. Ruth, saved by safety nets, leaves the city. Kari, saved by a sewer, crawls back into the fray of living. With the girls of Crystal Palace forming the chorus to her song, Kari explores the topography of smog city--friendship, loneliness, sleeper success, death--and the memory of her absentee Other."--Page 2 of cover.