


Ig had position and security within his hometown of Gideon, New Hampshire, but the rape and murder of his girlfriend, Merrin Williams, changed all that. Ig is the second son of a renowned musician and the younger brother of a rising late-night TV star, Terry Perrish. The novel consists of fifty chapters grouped into five sections of ten chapters each, named as follows:Ģ6-year-old Ignatius "Ig" Perrish wakes up one morning after a drunken night (in the woods containing an old foundry, near where his girlfriend's corpse was discovered) to find that he has sprouted bony, sensitive horns from his temples.

