Losing in Gainesville

By: Brian Costello

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Synopsis: This comedic slacker novel tracks a community of stoners, musicians, and regular dudes losing in every sense of the word.ed from himself. A rock-and-roll fable about the secret lives of the unsatisfied."-Kirkus Reviews"Costello describes suburban absurdities in teeming detail, approaching the self-aware gross-out humor of Tromaville: tumbling forward with the rushing momentum of Kerouac's prose. Nineties counterculture-emo bands, riot grrls, shit jobs, sleeping on floors, warm beer and cold pizza-often provides the punch line. Though funny and poking fun, Costello remains sympathetic to the awkwardness and ambivalence that drives young people, feeling trapped, to struggle to express themselves: that beautiful, life-affirming cycle of broke kids starting bands."-Tim Kinsella, Joan of Arc front man, author of Let Go and Go On and On and The Karaoke Singer's Guide to Self Defense"A bittersweet, twenty-something, rock-and-rolling tale of angst and longing, riffing on art and the meaning of it all amidst the banality and beauty of 90s Florida in a fever dream portrait of the artists as not-so-young punk rockers."-Eric Charles May, author of Bedrock Faith