Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X, he is back with 60 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living. The characters are Doug's own: crackpots, cranks and sweetie-pies, dad dancers and perpetrators of carbecues. People in the grip of unconscionable urges; lonely people; dying people; silly people. Residence: Vancouver, B.C. Print run 10,000.