Song of All Songs

Long after the apocalypse, Earth has repeopled itself. Twice. Despised by her mother's people and demeaned by her absent father's legacy, Meridia has one friend-Damon, an eccentric photologist. When Damon shows Meridia a stone he discovered in an old photo bag purchased from a vagrant peddler, she is transfixed. There's a woman, she says, a dancing woman. And a song. Can a song contain worlds? Oblivious of mounting political turmoil, the two set out to find the old peddler, to find out what...