This anthology is a startling departure from the ironic, post modern world we live in. Douglas Coupland, creator of 'Generation X', cuts through the hype and travels inward to explore the elusive terrain of our dreams and nightmares. In doing so he provides a searing analysis of Western culture, whilst tenderly evoking the complexities of soul searching for a generation without God.
When your world has fallen apart, how do you build a new one? Haunted by loss, each of the narrators in 'Life After God' is driven to escape from the exhausted, ironic consumerism of life in the big city, heading into the small domestic spaces of Vancouver or the open highways of North America.
Each is in search of small personal significances - desires and memories and affections - which can provide a new kind of truth in a culture stuck on fast-forward. A culture seemingly beyond God.
