When Hali's father asks her to help him commit suicide to spare thefamily the misery of a long illness, she reluctantly agrees. Hali'sfamily insists on letting "God's will" decide. Hali, brooding upon theidea of predetermination and an afterlife in a way that is bothchallenging and deeply moving, is ultimately unable to do what herfather wishes. She is forced to accept the help of a manipulative malenurse, adding further complications and a slow and painful end.

Naked Singularity

Comics & Graphic Novels

Victoria N. Alexander

Tori Alexander

Graphic Novels

Permanent Pr Pub Co

Permanent Press (NY)

In this beautifully nuanced dark comedy, a 9/11 widow and her son, Hamlet, have retreated from Brooklyn to the idyllic rural countryside upstate, where for nearly eight years they have run a sustainable farm. Unfortunately, their outrageously obese neighbors, who prefer the starchy products of industrial agriculture, reject their elitist ways (recycling, eating healthy, reading). Hamlet, who is now eighteen, is beginning to suspect that something is rotten in the United States of America, where health, happiness, and freedom are traded for cheap Walmart goods, Paxil, endless war, standard curriculum, and environmental degradation. He becomes very depressed when, on the very day of the 8th anniversary of his father's death, his mother marries a horrid, boring bureaucrat named Claudius. Things get even more depressing for Hamlet when he learns from Horatio, a conspiracy theorist, that Claudius is a fraud. The deceptions, spying, and corruption will ultimately lead, as in Shakespeare's play, to tragedy.

Locus Amoenus

Literature & Fiction

Literary

The Permanent Press

Alexander, Victoria N., Smoking Hopes

Smoking Hopes

United States

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