Look Down, This is Where It Must Have Happened

The acclaimed author of The Peep Diaries and Hello, I'm Special returns to fiction, and delivers a mind-altering collection of short stories that confront the hypocrisies, humiliations and hilarities of modern life. The foibles of the 21st-century ego are on full view in this romp through social conventionsimaginative, offbeat stories that confront society's intractable dilemmas and deftly capture the zeitgeist of our fractured times.*An undergraduate gets in way over his head when a class assignment to start a terrorist organization goes viral*A pregnant 10th-grader struggles with her fetus's insistence that she abort him before both their lives are ruined. *A man trying to come to terms with the death of a friend becomes obsessed with a funeral home's online braodcasts. *A mortgage broker gets lost between the Web and the real world in pursuit of a pornography-induced fantasy.Look Down, This is Where It Must Have Happened is a biting satire of nostalgia, a send-up of the way highschool-era friendships can permanently choke off the possibility of adulthood."e;Witty and wise."e;San Francisco Chronicle"e;An equally gifted fiction writer and social critic."e;Tikkun"e;There's tons of talent here."e;NOW Magazine"e;Hal Niedzviecki is a remarkable writer."e;Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street