I have just started reading Hey Nostradamus, by Douglas Coupland (Generation X fame)

Here’s an excerpt from the review

The opening narrator, Cheryl Anway, is the 17-year-old victim of a Columbine-style high-school massacre. Just before she was murdered in 1988, Cheryl had secretly married her high-school sweetheart Jason Klaasen and was expecting their child. The couple were part of a zealously evangelical Christian group, Youth Alive! whose members, immediately after the slaying, falsely accused Jason of masterminding the incident.

Eleven years later, Jason is still coming to terms with Cheryl’s death. He is, as he admits to his faithful dog Joyce, a “social blank with a liver like the Hindenburg” embarrassed by how damaged he is and by how mediocre he turned out”. (He fits bathrooms for a living.) Jason is also scarred by his relationship with his father Reg, a religious pedant so unyielding that he drove his wife into alcoholism and who genuinely believes that one of his identical twin grandsons cannot possess a soul.

I’m enjoying the read but the portrayal of Christians is very scary… Looking forward to seeing where it all goes…