

The author's mouthpieces are a single mother who's flown half a continent for an internet date, an on-the-run pastor who's stolen his congregation's money, a beautiful but ice-cool blonde incapable of human emotion and the alcoholic loser of a barman who serves them.


The setting is a tacky airport hotel cocktail bar where a disparate group are marooned when the world oil price goes stratospheric and life as we know it ends. It's a familiar Douglas Coupland set-up: take a handful of characters, place them in an apocalyptic situation and let them talk about life, death and the meaning of the universe, especially their religion and what constitutes human identity.
