Miss Wyoming – Douglas Coupland

It’s been four months since I read my last Douglas Coupland novel. I finished Miss Wyoming a couple of days ago, this is a quirky love novel about an beauty pageant who survives an airplane crash and a film director who decides to decides to become a vagrant upon seeing a vision. The storytelling runs back and forth as it starts by the meeting of the two main characters and then swings back and forth in parallel to tell the background story of each character and what happens next at the same time. It was fun to read and had amazing characters. I was not crazy about the ending as much as I was about other Douglas Coupland novels.
I am not sure if I should start reading my next Douglas Coupland novel Generation X. This is the first book he has ever written and will by reading it I would have read every single novel he has written in English (he has one written in Japanese, but I can’t read that). I’m afraid of what I would do in my life after completing all Douglas Coupland books
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I discovered recently that Coupland is going to publish a new book in August 2009! The book is called “Generation A”, it obviously has a link with his first book, but I’m praying that it’s not an indication that he’s gone full circle and would stop writing afterwards. That will not be cool at all!!


