No Alternative

Simultaneously brutal and funny caustic and caring No Alternative is a sacrament to be shared by all the survivors who grew up at the tail end of the fragmenting century. -Jack OConnell author of The ResurrectionistNo Alternative is a coming-of-age drama that drills a hole into the world of suburban American teenagers in the early 90s. Thomas Harrison is determined to start his own alternative band an obsession that blinds him to whats either the mental collapse or the eruption of musical genius of his little sister Bridget. Bridget boldly rejects her brothers music and the music of an entire generation of slackers by taking on the persona of a gangsta rapper named Bri Da B. No Alternative probes the lives of rebellious kids who transition into adulthood via the distortion pedals of their lives in an era when the Sex Drugs & Rock n Roll ethos was amended to include Suicide in its phrase.No Alternative is now a major motion picture starring Michaela Cavazos Conor Proft Chloe Levine Kathryn Erbe and Harry Hamlin. This updated edition of the novel includes a Foreword by Harry Hamlin and an Afterword by William Dickerson which explores the making of the film.