The Night Shift Almanac, Vol. 6: Water and Salt

About this book

Everything in this city runs downhill to the water, and the water keeps the accounts. Volume Six of The Night Shift Almanac follows the night along the wet edge of a single unnamed Malaysian city, from the first minutes after midnight to the exact moment the tide turns at six. Here are the people who keep the water while everyone else is asleep: a harbour clerk whose ledger has a column the tide reads, a boy on a squid boat learning why one lamp is always left burning over empty water, a drain inspector who can hear the monsoon rehearsing, a stall keeper whose awning can only be found in the rain, and an ice man who gives the last block of every night back to the sea.