Here's my favorite quote from "Miss Wyoming":
"We're young and in love, John Johnson," Vanessa teased.
"People like you were never young, Vanessa. People like you are born seventy-two, like soft pink surgeon generals."
I love broad, witty, sly, self-important novels, where dreadful things happen and characters say impossibly perfect and delightful things. And this book fit the bill quite nicely. This was my first Coupland book; my initial impression is that he and Don Delillo would have a lot of stylistic notes and postmodernish observations to compare and share. Really, this book reminded me a lot of the best Delillo books, except that it was much easier to read. (Is that better? Worse? Neither?) Thanks, Tami, for the recommendation, and Asher, for letting your mom have a few minutes to read. See, this goodreads thing actually works!