Ghost country
By: Sara Paretsky.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Psychotherapist and patient -- Fiction; Psychiatric social work -- Fiction; City and town life -- Fiction; Homeless persons -- Fiction; Psychiatrists -- Fiction; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction
Description: They come from different worlds and meet at a time of crisis for all of them. Luisa, a drunken diva fallen on hard times, discovers on Chicago's streets a drama greater than any she has experienced onstage. Madeleine, a homeless woman, sees the Virgin Mary's blood seeping through a concrete wall beneath a luxury hotel.

Mara, a rebellious adolescent cast out by her wealthy grandfather, becomes the catalyst for a war between the haves and have-nots as she searches among society's castoffs for the mother she never knew. As the three women fight for their right to live and worship beneath the hotel, they find an ally in Hector Tammuz, an idealistic young psychiatrist risking his career to treat the homeless regardless of the cost.