Citiscape

A novel

by Beverly Schloendorf

In Citiscape, the pavement breathes and the margins of the city pulse with invisible power. Told through interwoven vignettes, the novel maps an urban landscape that is both physical and psychological. A disillusioned ex-cop haunted by the systems he once upheld. An aging priest turning a dying church into something more. A homeless person fighting to survive. Their lives, stories and ghosts intersect in a metropolis that mirrors them, beautiful, broken and indifferent. Citiscape is not a place. It is a question hanging in the smog: who owns the city, and who merely survives it?