Girlfriend in a coma

Douglas Coupland

A beautifully told masterpiece, packed with irony and jokes.’ -Kathy Burke

What did Karen see that December night? What pictures of tomorrow could so disturb her that she would flee into a refuge of bottomless sleep? Why would she leave me?’.
It’s 15 December, 1979, and Richard’s girlfriend Karen has entered a deep coma. She only took a couple of valium washed down with a cocktail, but now she’s locked away in suspended animation, oblivious to the passage of time. What if she were to wake up decades later-a 17-year-old girl in
a distant future, a future where the world has gone dark?

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