New York TimesĮvents, though outlandish, are narrated with total conviction, and powerfully express the intensity both of attaining sobriety and of the writing process. But as she tries to make queer love and art without succumbing to self-destructive impulses, the boundaries between storytelling and everyday living begin to blur, and Michelle wonders how much she'll have to compromise her artistic process if she's going to properly ride out doomsday.Ī Gen-X queer girl's version of the bohemian counter-canon. While living in an abandoned bookstore, dating Matt Dillon, and keeping an eye on the encroaching apocalypse, Michelle begins a new novel, a meta-textual exploration to complement her vows to embrace maturity and responsibility. This metaliterary end-of-the-world novel is a Gen-X queer girl's version of the bohemian counter-canon ( New York Times).ĭesperate to quell her addiction to drugs and alcohol, disastrous romance, and nineties San Francisco, Michelle heads south to LA But soon it's officially announced that the world will end in one year, and life in the sprawling metropolis becomes increasingly weird.
A dreamlike and dystopian meditation on sobriety, adulthood, and the weird obligations of storytelling.
About the Book It's 1999-and Michelle's world is ending.
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