You Wake Dreaming

Robin, a quirky anorectic poet, wakes up one morning on the wrong side of fifty lamenting the past half century. None of Robin’s life dreams, to publish a book, to live in a cabin by the river, and to find true love, have come true.

It all starts with the Seattle earthquake, 1965. Eve, Robin’s mother, disappears. Howard, Robin’s father, grows morbidly obese on the couch. Robin’s older sister, as if abducted by aliens and implanted, grows huge breasts overnight, and in turn also disappears, ...