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Side Effects

Side Effects

A Footloose Journey to the Apocalypse

By S. Montana Katz

Side Effects: A footloose journey to the apocalypse is a novel about the post-World War II baby boom generation and the factors that have led to climate catastrophe. The novel provides a portrait of the boomers by following the lives of a zany, idealistic couple and their growing family through the '50s, '60s, '70s. Beginning on a honeymoon motorcycle trip the couple sets the goal of putting down roots in California, the land of wild beauty, abundance, and political activism. The music, art, science, and politics of the era are palpable throughout the book.

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Guernica World Editions (World Prose)

9781771835503

290 pages |

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Any novel that starts off with the protagonists standing on a precipice overlooking the Bay Area and screaming for joy that they had found Mecca is a book I want to read. So will you. Side Effects is a deftly rendered, stream-of-consciousness narrative that provokes, challenges, and unsettles—a disquieting discourse cued to our time and place.

Char Miller, W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis and History, Pomona College

Following WW II, hope was in the air. Fascism and the Great Depression were vanquished. Young Americans dreamed of a new world of peace and endless prosperity. Montana Katz’s new novel Side Effects chronicles the unravelling of those dreams through the lens of one autistic young woman. But Side Effects goes way beyond your traditional coming of age story. Like Katz’s earlier novel, Clytemnestra’s Last Day, which reimagined classic Greek myths to explore painful issues of sexual violence and human tragedy, Side Effects blows up the traditional coming of age story to explore the unravelling of one family and the creation of a global environmental catastrophe. Side Effects is a poignant story of the toxic forces that have destroyed both the American dream and the global environment. Great writing and political fiction at its best.

George Winslow, author of Capital Crimes

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