Cecilia is a novella about the intensity and eroticism of girlhood friendships, the ecstasy of desire and disgust, and the haunting presence of crows. Cecilia is a novella about transformation - bodily and mythological, personal and cultural - and the violent underside of love and friendship. The narrator Seven, while working at a chiropractor's office, reencounters and shares an extraordinary bus ride with a woman named Cecilia who has sparked an obsession since childhood.