One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, 17-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with the reckless, impulsive Tomás, a boy she barely knows. Their quest: to track down a troupe of Ukrainian dwarfs who have recently escaped a touring circus. But as they wander the shoreline, they begin to discover that a quest is more easily envisioned than accomplished. A mesmerizing, revelatory novel, smart and funny and laced with a strangeness.