World's Edge: A Mosaic Novel

A haunting call for compassion and resilience in the face of societal dissolution from James Sallis, the multiple-award-winning author of Drive. In a not-too-distant future, the United States has fragmented into unstable, often hostile provinces. Between refugee streams, ruins, orphaned children, soldiers, militias and the displaced, people try to maintain their daily lives as best they can.

The five interconnected stories of World's Edge trace the false starts and standstills of a nation trying to get back on its feet and reinvent itself - and tell of the individual fates caught up in this renewed attempt. Sallis reminds us that the true story always lies in the lives of individual people - in the old "rag-and-bone shop" of our hearts.