 This allows him to know the truth of things, to receive fortunes and to reveal to people the answers to their troubles.Aiding him in his battle for survival is the enigmatic 'Cassie' and several other people from the streets.Orson Scott Card praised the novel as "miraculously good" (although he faulted the ending); he described it as "so real, so original, you won't regret buying it and reading it."