Emily Yancy

An 18th-century African prince, turned into a vampire by Dracula, finds himself in modern-day Los Angeles.

The unspoken system that has shaped America and chronicles how lives today are defined by a hierarchy of human divisions.

The story of three wildly neurotic characters: A facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the hospital, set up housekeeping together in a cottage where they support each other.