Femke drifts through turn-of-the-century Amsterdam with her dog Bibi, moving between parks, squats, addicts, and the decaying edges of the city.

She’s a flâneur with a taste for invention—given to lies, seizures she calls trances, and a sharp, needling wit. Her mother is volatile, her father dead but still present as a colonial taint, and Femke treats all of it as material rather than inheritance.

The novel tracks her movement, Cameron keeps things tight and controlled, letting Femke’s voice carry the book. Throughout she is acerbic, observant, occasionally (read: often) unreliable. Read as a portrait of someone constructing themselves in real time, using the city, memory, and fiction interchangeably.

Hardcover, Taproot Press (2023). Very good condition—clean boards and pages, minimal handling wear.