Girlfriend In A Coma

After making love for the first time, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil confides in her boyfriend, Richard, about the dark visions she's recently been suffering. A few hours later she descends into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to a daughter, Megan, her child by Richard, the protagonist in this disturbingly funny novel. Karen remains comatose for the next 17 years. Richard and Karen's circle of friends reside in emotional purgatory throughout the next two decades, before reuniting on a conspiracy-driven supernatural television series. Upon Karen's reawakening, life grows as surreal as their television show. With apocalyptic events occurring, Karen, Richard and their friends explore the essential mysteries of life, faith, decency and existence. Amid the world's rubble they attempt to restore their own humanity.