If the title of this book doesn't immediately set you off,
then the first chapter will! Jonathan Selwood has crafted a
wonderful debut novel complete with zany characters,
improbable ideas, and laugh-out-loud situations. The novel
starts off with the ultra hip painter, Isabel Raven rising
to sudden fortune of fame. Sounds great? Right! As you might
have guessed, everything in her personal life starts to
crumble just like a major earthquake that hits her
apartment. Now, I'm one that wants a book set in LA to
represent something more than gridlock and celebrities.
Selwood not only has fun with the LA stereotype, but he
throws it into hilarious surreal spin. In true underground
fashion, the novel even has website links to Isabel Raven's
artwork and the pinball theory of apocalypse. This quirky
novel is fun, upbeat, sometimes dark, but worth the adventure.
For years, painter Isabel Raven has made an
almost-living forging Impressionist masterpieces to decorate
the McMansions of the not-quite-Sotheby's-auction rich. But
when she serendipitously hits on an idea that turns her into
the "It Girl" of the L.A. art scene, her career takes off
just as the rest of her life heads south. Her personal-chef
boyfriend is having a wild sexual dalliance with the teenage
self-styled "Latina Britney Spears." If Isabel refuses to
participate in an excruciatingly humiliating ad campaign,
her sociopathic art dealer is threatening to "gut her like
an emu." And her reclusive physicist father has conclusively
proven that the end of the world is just around the corner.
Now, with the Apocalypse looming--and with only a
disaffected Dutch-Eskimo billionaire philanthropist and his
dissolute thirteen-year-old adopted daughter to guide
he--there's barely enough time remaining for Isabel to
reexamine her fragile delusional existence . . . and the
delusional reality of her schizophrenic native city.
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