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Girlfriend in a Coma

by Douglas Coupland

Reganbooks | March 15, 1999 | Trade Paperback

On a snowy Saturday night in 1979, after making love for the first time, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil confides the dark visions she''s been suffering to her boyfriend, Richard. Only a few hours later she descends into a coma. Nine months after that, she gives birth to a daughter, Megan, her child by Richard.

Karen remains comatose for the next 18 years. Richard and her circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory throughout the next two decades, passing through careers as models, film special-effects technicians, doctors and demolition experts before finally being reunited while working on a conspiracy-driven supernatural series.

Upon Karen''s reawakening, life grows as surreal as the television show. Strange, apocalyptic events begin to occur. Later, amid the world''s rubble, Karen, Richard and their friends attempt to restore their own humanity.

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Rating: 4/5

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This was my first Douglas Coupland novel I had ever read, and I was pretty satisfied. He takes you through the story of a girl named Karen, who knows something is wrong, but is unsure of what. Next thing you know, she is in a coma and you are left seeing things through the eyes of her friends and family and how they cope with life after coma.
As I was reading, I imagined a certain path that Coupland was trying to right, and it wasn't even close to where the story ended up turning. This book make me continue reading his work.

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Marissa Pilaszkiewicz

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Slightly Devious

Girlfriend in a Coma is one of Coupland's more spiritual reads, but still has his sense of humour throughout. The main character, Karen, is having some very confusing and somewhat chilling visions. Before you know it, she's in a coma. For eighteen years. Her high school boyfriend, friends and family are all changed by this event, and are eventually reunited when she comes out of her coma, which is where things really start to go downhill for the world. If I continue, I may end up giving more away than intended.

Marissa Pilaszkiewicz

Thanks for giving me the idea, it sounds good.

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