Gwendolyn works as a stripper. Gwen doesn't like this job, but it is helping her get though grad school. Gwen lives with her boyfriend Leo, who smokes pots and hangs out on street corners in different costumes. Along with all this, there is the downstairs neighbor Count Valiant, who seems to be dying.

Coming home from work one night, Gwen is caught in the rioting caused by the Rodney King beating. All Gwen wants to do is get home and get out of town. The big shocker is that Gwen finds out that she is gong to have a baby, and doesn't feel that Leo will fit the role of a father.

FURTHER OUT THAN YOU THOUGHT was a little too hard for me to follow. One minute the characters are on a rooftop smoking pot. The next minute they are in a car trying to get out of town.

I found that I lost interest in this book after about fifty pages. I did finish it, but it took me a long time. Would read a chapter and than put it down for a few days.

I feel some people would get into this story line, I did not. The characters to me were a little on the weird side. Sometimes this adds to the book. In this case, it didn't do anything for me. The storyline kind of jumped around just a little too much for me. I didn't have a problem with the drugs. It was just a little too unbelievable for me. I didn't really care how it ended, I just wanted it to end. I