Trisha had been rich and Trisha had been poor, and she knew it was better to be rich. But now she was poor again; not just poor but stripped of her identity. She is to swap sex, and her very soul, with young, handsome, trendy Peter Watson. She passes him too close upon the stairs, and some might think what happens - a first in mankind's history - is an improvement and some might not. Peter's partner Doralee thinks not. Inadvisable, says Fay Wlson, in this book - part high concept novel, part memoir, part the recent history of a culture - to cross on the stairs. The old mysths might be right. You can lose your soul all too easily…