"My name is Amy. I am this awful music that you hear." Self-exiled from Ireland to the New Mexico desert, an Irishwoman of part-Amerindian ancestry is nowhere at home. Lovely Amy Webb's intelligence, talent and astringent wit connive to overcome the cruel austerities and racist attitudes that defined her Dublin childhood. Yet ultimately she fails to transform into love the passions that consume her, and in the process lives are ruined. Rich in remarkable characters and in scenes of stirring eroticism and the dark levity that masks despair, Human Child examines the casual ease with which...