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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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