“It’s not healthy to live life as a succession of isolated little cool moments. Either our lives become stories, or there’s just no way to get through them.”
Book Jacket Summary: Andy, Claire, and Dag, each in their twenties, have quit “pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause” in their respective hometowns and cut themselves adrift on the California desert. In search of the drastic changes that will lend meaning to their lives, they’ve mired themselves in the detritus of American cultural memory.
Highlights:
--accurate, keen observations about the restless and disaffected segment of society
--funny, but not in a laugh out loud way, more subtle humor/irony
--absurdist/bizarre short stories
--the characters ARE your friends...everybody knows someone like the people in this book
Similar to: Joan Didion’s “Play It As it Lays,” Bret Easton Ellis, Jay McInerney, Kurt Vonnegut’s “Breakfast of Champions”
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