In this novel, Douglas Coupland veers away from what he does best. This work is predicable and mundane. I believe he was trying to take his story telling in another direction- a more mainstream direction, but he fails. The characters are poorly developed, the plot is thin and predictable. Having said this, I remain a huge Coupland fan and if you bored of the formula of Generation X and Microserfs, perhaps this is hte novel for you.