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Meet Fizzy Oceans—archivist, researcher, environmentalist and adventurer. On her travels she witnesses The Exodus, the Battle of Gettysburg and Hurricane Katrina. She meets notable individuals including Gandhi, Mark Twain, Jacques Cousteau, The Dalai Llama, Saddam Hussein.
Such unique experiences and encounters would not be possible for a single individual—especially not for Amy Birkenstock who works as a medical clerk in Seattle—but Fizzy Oceans, Amy’s digital alter ego, is not in Physical Life. She lives, works and travels in the virtual world where the dead are very much alive, places like ancient Babylon and Pompeii have been reconstructed, and with the click of a button—WHOOSH!—one is transported throughout the Ages to events and destinations that make up our human history.
Even as Amy’s physical life existence is challenged by encroaching environmental disaster, economic instability, and societal breakdown, Fizzy’s virtual world offers instant realization of vision and inspiration. The Virtual Life of Fizzy Oceans imagines the bridging of two worlds—the literal and the metaphorical—and questions what it we have created, what has been lost, and what might be possible for the Human Race.
Across the border on Mariscal Street, which is otherwise known as the Boulevard of Broken Dreams, we find Donald O’Donovan’s TARANTULA WOMAN—a prostitute named Ysela with a tattoo of a tarantula on her left shoulder blade. She is just one of many women in one man’s unapologetic and aimless existence in Mexico where each day brings another round of whorehouses, drunken stupors, odd jobs, eruptions of violence and encounters with equally directionless individuals.
Perhaps not since Charles Bukowski’s FACTOTUM has an autobiographical novel touched upon with such rawness the everyday realities of a modern-day American degenerate. More than just a diary of a drunk, however, O’Donovan’s wandering prose skillfully handles such big subjects as life, love, death and the difficulty of simply being.
Shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize, Necropsy in E Minor is the tale of a young professor who records the past six months of his life as he drives around the rim of Florida, adopts a cat named Sanity, becomes an amateur ornithologist, develops a theory of “instantaneous architecture,” endures a shamanic experience, and eggs himself on with the hope that, no matter what happens, his “memoir” might one day be found by archaeologists and thereby provide a key to human life at the close of the
twentieth century.
Brainy
Funny
Fiction!
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