The Glister

"According to Leonard, the fifteen-year-old narrator of this extraordinary novel, the decaying coastal community of Innertown is a contemporary hell, part industrial ruin, part Dante's inferno, where the poisoned woods and the derelict buildings are haunted by wild children, a strange, sickly fauna and the mysterious figure of the Moth Man, an itinerant ecologist who appears to be conducting a bizarre survey into local insect populations, but might just as easily be the Angel of the Lord." "Here, Leonard and his friends exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their…