The Blue Kind / / Kathryn Born.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Born, Kathryn,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Switchgrass Books
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)

In Neom the laws of physics are lax and everyone still gets high. The city squares do it so they can keep working non-stop. The hipsters do it so they can accept things as they are and not how they want them to be. And for a thousand years, Alison has done it to cope with the burdens of immortality. If you can't die, she says, at least you can be as stoned as the living dead.So begins The Blue Kind, a dystopian drug-fantasy that unfolds in the apocalyptic debris of an all but unrecognizable American city. In the wake of Drug War II, all the soldiers have become dealers and all the women have become collateral for the intoxicants they both peddle and pop like Skittles. But a powerful new drug is rumored to top them all, one that will fix everything wrong with Alison's life, but one that is cooked and sold by her fiercest adversary: a dealer who threatens to destroy her entire world.Brimming with a rich and labyrinth plot, indelible characters, and an unforgettable ending, The Blue Kind is as wild a ride as they come: a free-wheeling read about the cycle of addiction that is, itself, addictive.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- The moment in time before everything went blank -- Some of it wasn't very nice, but most of it was beautiful -- Peace pot microdot, Jesus loves you wasted or not -- Looking like rain -- I said "hi" and she said "yea, I guess I am" -- Just say no, don't mind if I do -- Disappear here -- It's 10 o'clock on a Saturday night. Do you know what time it is? -- Going nowhere fast -- Three people make a conspiracy -- If need be -- Fight, crash, fall -- So the wind won't blow it all away -- I come in the name of destruction -- We, the liars, the cursed + the lost -- This is not the time of great -- This world will only break your heart -- The revolution hems + haws -- If I knew the way, I would take you home -- Go forward, never go straight -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS