My first Douglas Coupland novel. I used to pick this book up a lot in bookstores and read the back and think about buying it but never getting around to it. Anyways, the book follows the events of a tragic high school massacre, and is written from four POVs. The first is of a girl who was a victim, the second is her boyfriend/secret husband, the third is the new girlfriend of the survived boyfriend, and the last is the boy's father. The novel spans about 2 decades, and deals a lot with faith and religion. It started to get a bit surreal in the second POV. I was getting a little confused because events start to become a bit vague and told in bits and pieces. Someone told me, at the end, that the novel is kind of like the parable of the prodigal son, and that explained a bit of it.