About the Book: Cosmo, Cosmolino: From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize
He straightened his spine, raised his head, and extended his gun arm towards me
in a slow, vertical arc. I saw then what he was, and stood still in front of
him, for he was here on business. He was a small, serious, stone-eyed angel of
mercy.Janet is a skeptic, a journalist; Maxine revels in New Age fantasies; and
Ray, a drifter, is a born-again Christian. The common ground is the house they
share. But their fragile domestic balance is about to explode amid the smashing
of ukeleles, the unexpected ascension