The book bristles with accomplishment. The imagination seems quite finished
as regards alacrity and transmutation while balancing its sensibility.

— Poet Will Alexander

Autobiographical prose in line with the self revelatory tradition set by Kazantzakis, Henry Miller and Jack Kerouac. On tour with a Sudanese pop group, an American musician loses his mind in Cairo, caught in an obsessive passion with Mona, an Egyptian widow. The action flows through Africa and Europe, split screened with streams of flashback—in between which slips rogue cab drivers, a femme fatale, a Palestinian Zorba, a family of Moroccan musicians, hashish dealers, a Sufi painter; a kaleidoscopic unraveling  connecting the ley lines at the confluence of past and future. Torn between his desire for Mona and the call of the spirit, it finally comes to a head, forcing him to return home and confront his own roots and the trauma of his family.