Delightful prose
Born into a circus family, raised by a bearded lady after his trapeze-artist mother’s suicide and his Arabian magic carpet-pilot father’s desertion, he was destined to become ‘a knower’, one of those who can see to the core of a person, who can guess their weight by sight and their entire back story by the pinch of their posture.
In adulthood, having left the freak-shows behind, he trawls the Montreal night in search of fares, rubbing shoulders with pimps, prostitutes, drug dealers, and the drunken and debauched of society but keeping his life, as much as possible, separate from theirs.
