A story told as a series of non-chronological vignettes about a loosely-related group of people. An intriguing concept, and reminds me of [b:The Turning|985392|Turning|Tim Winton|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180014051s/985392.jpg|856423]. I couldn't quite get into it, though. In general, I had little to no sympathy for the characters. I also found it a little difficult to immerse myself in the setting of each new story -the initial spate of questions I had to ask myself ("Who's this? Where are we? When are we?") took me out of the moment.

Some of the vignettes are really interesting and fun to read (the opening story, told about Sasha, and Alison's story were by far the best), but most of the others didn't reach the same heights.