The Night Shift Almanac, Vol. 7: The Hour Before Six

About this book

Every almanac ends where the light comes up. In this seventh and final volume, the city's night workers walk their last rounds and their first ones: a clock tower winder spends forty years of saved minutes on the people who meant their wishes; a free midnight class above a mamak restaurant holds its final reading; a closing pawnshop opens its redemption window and lets everything go home at the old price; a printing press sets one last page of its own; and the keeper of the old quarter's lamps opens her lantern at 5:59 and gives the city back forty-four years of saved light.