 His new girlfriend Anastasia (Anna) Cayne is instead presented as a complicated high school goth girl with a penchant for riddles and affectionate mind games.Anna spends much of her time creating obituaries for every living person in town and introducing the narrator to a wider landscape of art, music and literature.She is unlike anyone the narrator has ever known and soon finds himself enveloped in a world of Houdini tricks, strange art, covert messages, and ghost stories – although her past remains an even bigger mystery.