And when a stranger from one of Mary's
fabulist tales shows up, Tessa risks everything to follow him to Rain Village, where she might finally discover her mentor's tragic secret.
«The Children's Hospital, a sprawling and impassioned morality
tale in which a catastrophe of biblical scale wipes out nearly all life, human and otherwise, on Earth... despite its weaknesses, The Children's Hospital establishes Chris Adrian as a remarkable American
fabulist in the tradition of Melvin Jules Bukiet and Tony Kushner, writers who define and confront the terrifying moral choices of a new century.»