A somewhat gross story. It's always nice to read a book which takes place in my home town (more like city) of Montreal. My problem with this book is the editing. I'm not sure if it was the publisher's or the author's desire to anger English majors with poor punctuation and grammar but they sure did a good job at doing that. There are rarely quotation marks when people start talking and certain passages read as if they were translated from Arabic. Nonetheless, this was an exotic story that had high points and low ones. Worth reading if you can stomach its morbidity.