books.google.co.uk - "Coming down the coastal prairie from Houston on Interstate 45, you can smell the ghosts before you can see or hear them. They smell sweet and moldy, like the unfocused memory of some lost sensation jarred unexpectedly to mind". -- from chapter oneGalveston -- a small, flat island off the Texas Gulf...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Galveston.html?id=RFRu8kYThEcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGalveston