The City and Its Uncertain Walls

Summary: As a teenager, the narrator of this tale falls in love with a girl who tells him about a city with high walls where people live without shadows alongside unicorns. Then, she disappears. For years, the narrator wonders what happened to her and longs to see her again, that is until he finds his way to the strange city the girl told him about. This work, which many might classify as magical realism but the author would not, chronicles the life of this narrator from adolescence through adulthood as he several times, often inexplicably, crosses the boundary between the world readers will recognize as their own and the city with his high walls.