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From Publishers Weekly

Adults who remember the Choose Your Own Adventure YA
novels are the target audience for this debut from Public
Radio International producer McElhatton. The book opens
with a female second person's high school graduation,
which leads "you" to two possible choices: travel or college.
Each succeeding section (mostly between one and four
pages) similarly offers two options for proceeding, leading
to an impressive array of possible developments, from a trip
to Rome that can result in a live-in Italian artist boyfriend, to
a dead-end job as a phone sex operator with the moniker of
Stormy Sioux. Situations include the playfully surreal, such
as a stint in a German circus as a nude ice dancer, and the
tender, as in a life lived on the Iceland coast with a lovely,
seal-obsessed child who has Down syndrome and a devoted
scientist husband. There's also crystal meth addiction, rape,
death by explosion, bursts of salty humor and moments of
descriptive lyricism, especially in McElhatton's many vivid
imaginings of the afterlife ("heaven is a junk shop... broken
beauty everywhere").
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