In this urban fantasy world, the adventures of three unusual women, Suzy Chu, Rachel Squared, and Little Elizabeth, each with her own agenda, create a tale that combines an ominous labyrinth with mundane settings in and around the City -- the ballfields, the bars, the schools, the news stands -- and comical characters inhabiting this City both historic and mythic. As recounted by a garrulous and visionary storyteller, Thousand Songs is funny, mysterious, and epic in its conception. The barrier between dream and reality is always tenuous and our narrator, a street corner bard with a gift for suggestive analogy, keeps the ball rolling from local history to the fantastic and back, in this surreal neighborhood saga -a tall tale of interlacing stories full of bizarre details, sketchy subplots, poetic fancies and an arcane sense of the everyday.