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"The acclaimed author of
The Peep Diaries and
Hello, I''m Special returns to fiction, and delivers a mind-altering collection of short stories that confront the hypocrisies, humiliations and hilarities of modern life. The foibles of the 21st-century ego are on full view in this romp through social conventions-imaginative, offbeat stories that confront society''s intractable dilemmas and deftly capture the zeitgeist of our fractured times.*An undergraduate gets in way over his head when a class assignment to start a terrorist organization goes viral*A pregnant 10th-grader struggles with her fetus''s insistence that she abort him before both their lives are ruined.*A man trying to come to terms with the death of a friend becomes obsessed with a funeral home''s online braodcasts.*A mortgage broker gets lost between the Web and the real world in pursuit of a pornography-induced fantasy.
Look Down, This is Where It Must Have Happened is a biting satire of nostalgia, a send-up of the way highschool-era friendships can permanently choke off the possibility of adulthood.Witty and wise.""-
San Francisco Chronicle ""An equally gifted fiction writer and social critic.""-
Tikkun ""There''s tons of talent here.""-
NOW Magazine ""Hal Niedzviecki is a remarkable writer.""-Margot Livesey, author of
The House on Fortune Street """