Bongwater

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Emerging from the eclipses of the American dream, Bongwater is the novel of the last lost generation. Its heroes, rebellious, vulnerable, and tenderly cynical, are proud and smiling representatives of a misunderstood youth still ignored by literature. Disoriented outcasts from a world abandoned by the gods, David, Courtney, Jennifer, and others drift through their lives under the leaden skies of Portland. Michael Hornburg delivers a debut novel that is both destructive and romantic, capturing the grunge culture of the 90s in a way that echoes Bret Easton Ellis's Less Than Zero in the 80s.