Paisley Girl Author:Fran Gordon Dazzling in its language, exquisitely moving and desperately funny, Fran Gordon's Paisley Girl is a work of rare power. From the novel's first line - "Word has spread of my body"-- we are thrust into the mind of a young unnamed woman whose skin is spiraled by mast-cell leukemia. With her, Gordon has created a memorable and compelling narrator: i... more »ngenious, naive, and deeply human. Her marks are the stamp of life and death on Everyperson's skin. And her journey of discovery -- from hospitals to backstage parties to London flats to the shores of Barbados - is ultimately a spin through the infinite twists of chaos and disrepair. Less a novel of disease than a tracing of the path from body to soul, Paisley Girl is a bold and unforgettable debut from a singular writer.« less