root-book

He mapped a city that never existed. She has to find out why—or lose him twice.When Elena''''s father dies, she discovers his secret: forty years of hand-drawn maps showing impossible streets, phantom rivers, a whole metropolis dreamed into being for a woman who died in 1979. The man who got lost driving to the store had been a cartographer of absence, building a world to keep a ghost alive.Now Elena is walking the border between real and remembered, decoding a love letter written in topography, searching for the father she never knew in the city he never left.Complete short novel. Literary fiction with sharp edges.