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Growing up in the L.A. of the 1990s, all young Koot Parganas wants is to be normal, but his weird parents won't allow it. They venerate the spirits of dead Mahatmas. Feeling he has no alternative, Koot disobeys his parents and breaks into a bust of Dante and steals a small glass vial that was concealed inside the bust. The vial contains the preserved ghost of Thomas Edison.� Now, aided by allies as strange as his enemies, Koot is pursued through the dark underside of the city. Twelve-year-old Koot Hoomie Parganas's Parents Prepared Him For A Career As A Metaphysical Holy Man - But After They're Brutally Murdered One Night He Finds Himself A Fugitive In The Darkest Corners Of Los Angeles, Pursued By Denizens Of A Dark Underworld Who Want What Kootie's Parents Have Been Hiding For Forty Years - The Ghost Of Thomas Edison Contained In A Bust Of Dante. But Kootie Has Broken The Bust And Inhaled The Ghost, And Now Has In His Head The Lively Personality Of Edison Himself - And Together Kootie And Edison Must Learn The Harsh Rules Of The Occult World Existing Behind The Glitter Of Modern Los Angeles, And Find A Way To Save Kootie's Life And Free Edison's Ghost From Its Earthly Purgatory.