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Susan
is a former child-beauty-pageant contender. John is a hard-living movie producer.
She walks away from a plane crash without so much as a scratch. He comes away
from a near-death experience with a unique, vivid plan. Susan refuses to spend
one more day peddling herself for cheesy TV sitcom parts and takes advantage
of a very weird situation to disappear. John turns his back on a hedonistic
life making blockbuster action flicks. Shedding their self-made identities,
each sets out on an uncharted course across the Gap-clogged, strip-mall landscape
of California, searching for the thing--Love--that neither has ever really known,
but that they now think they just might, actually, desperately want. Assisting
Susan and John are a blackmailing pageant mom, a pair of suburban eggheads,
a rust-belt refugee, and a salad bar of other twentieth-century Americans who
all share the dream of one day taking center stage. In Miss
Wyoming, Douglas Coupland has combined the
literary and the popular in a sparkling and witty caper that quietly resonates
into the eternal. |
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