Things We Didn't See Coming

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Synopsis
Opening on the eve of the millennium, when the world as we know it is still recognisable, we meet the nine-year old narrator as he flees the city with his parents, just ahead of a Y2K breakdown.

In the next chapter he is a teenager, already a delinquent, in a world transformed by battles over resources, taking his grandparents for a Sunday drive and teaching them how to steal.

In time, we see him struggle through strange, horrific, and unexpectedly funny terrain as he goes about the no longer simple act of survival - protecting squatters (while trying to sleep with them and steal from them) as a biblical rainstorm floods the land; travelling from disaster site to disaster site, giving out government grants to survivors while trying to find a little love; living the high-life in a three-way relationship with his girlfriend and a wealthy senator; leading adventure tours for the terminally ill.

Despite the chaos of his world, he keeps his eyes on the exit door, his heart open and his mind on what he thinks is going to happen next. Even as the world is spinning out of control, we learn that essential human impulses still hold sway - that we never entirely escape our parents, envy others' success and, chiefly, that we crave love.

Things We Didn't See Coming is haunting and vividly imagined - a stunning, dark, and darkly comic debut.

Copyright:
2009

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780307378910
Related ISBNs:
9781846553660, 9781407092379, 9780307473608, 9780307378507, 9781740667012, 9780099547044
Publisher:
Pantheon Books
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Copyrighted By:
Steven Amsterdam
Adult content:
Yes
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Literature and Fiction
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Bookshare Staff
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