In Állex Leilla's Springtime in the Bones, the city of Salvador, capital of the Brazilian state of Bahia, is as much a character as the novel's two protagonists, Luísa and Michel. Storied. Reticent. Presiding. So timeworn that it is described as only a local would know it, with equal parts awe, scorn, comfort, and annoyance. Luísa, who muses about the rusting, "worm-eaten" sights and the challenges of living in "such an old place", at one point suggests fleeing the city for B