"Five people: four are living; three are strangers; two are sisters; one, a teenage hotel chambermaid, has fallen to her death in a dumbwaiter. But her spirit lingers in the world, straining to recall things she never knew. And one night all five women find themselves in the smooth plush environs of the Global Hotel, where the intersection of their very different fates make for this playful, defiant, and richly inventive novel."

Copy #2, picked up at a library sale.

Placing into the "All Women" bookbox.

Was in my "all women" bookbox. Looks good.

Overall I enjoyed this book. I really liked the first chapter and would have liked to see more from the narration of Sara.

"Her blood is pulsing. She can feel it. She can see it. She can actually see her blood, moving inside her eyes, in the collision of light and dark. Her irises behind her eyelids bloom open and shut on the beat of its pulse like the speeded-up heads of light-sensitive flowers or the sensitive shutters of cameras."

sending to pritzkit as part of an RABCK bookbox.

Another sweetsangria RABCK. Thanks to both indygo88 & sweetsangria for this book. Interestingly, this is by Ali Smith, and another book in the box is by Alison Smith.

I liked certain voices in the book but really disliked others (skipped most of the sister's stream-of-consciousness).

I'll be bringing it to the DC convention for release.

Released to the general book buffet at the 2011 Bookcrossing convention.
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