Girls memory parenting millennial fear all served Couplandstyle. Karenan attractive popular student goes into a coma one night in 1979. Whilst init she gives b... » 

Girls memory parenting millennial fear all served Couplandstyle. Karenan attractive popular student goes into a coma one night in 1979. Whilst init she gives birth to a healthy baby daughter once out of it a mere eighteenyears later she finds herself Rip van Winklelike a middleaged mother whosefriends have all gone through all the normal marital social and politicaltraumas and back again...This tragicomedy shows Coupland in his most matureform yet writing with all his customary powers of acute observation butturning his attention away from the surface of modern life to the dynamics ofmodern relationships but doing so with all the sly wit and weird accuracy weexpect of the soothsaying author of Generation X Shampoo Planet Life AfterGod Microserfs and Polaroids from the Dead. «