Hey Nostradamus!

<p>The story of one family piecing itself back together after a tragic highschool shooting Hey Nostradamus! is Douglas Coupland’s most soulful piercing and searching novel yet.</p> <p>Pregnant and secretly married Cheryl Anway scribbles her last will and testament – and erie premonition – on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia teenage angst and religious zeal in the ensuing massacre's wake this sleepy Vancouver neighbourhood declares its saints brands its demons and finally moves on.</p> <p>But for a handful of people still reeling from that horrific day life remains perpetually derailed. Four dramatically different characters tell their stories in their own words: Cheryl who calmly narrates her own death; Jason the boy no one knew was her husband still marooned ten years later by his loss; Heather the woman trying to love the shattered Jason; and Jason's father Reg a cruelly religious man no one suspects is still worth loving. Each wrestles with God self-defeat and a crippling inability to hold on to those they love.</p> <p>Coupland's most surprising and soulful novel yet rich with his trademark cultural acuity and dark humour Hey Nostradamus! ties themes of alienation violence and misguided faith into a fateful and unforgettable knot from which four people must untangle their lives.</p>