An exploration of desire and loss with a millennium theme - 2,000 women walk off a cliff, one escapes.[...]
* National Book Foundation's '5 Under 35' Selection.
* NPR Best Books of 2010: A Hidden Gem.
* The Believer Book Award Finalist.
"The exhilaration of such a novel is nearly beyond calculation. If a new literature is at hand then it might as well begin here."
--Steve Erickson, from his I[...]
One November night in a canyon outside L.A., Zan Nordhoc-a failed novelist turned pirate radio DJ-sits before the television with his small, adopted black daughter, watching the election of his country's first black president. In the nova of this historic moment, with an economic recession threateni[...]