Dissent: a Novel of Emic Proportions

A Trenchant Literary Interpretation of American Culture and its Devolution in the Wake of September 11th: This innovative tale offers a crossfire of narrators, who guide the reader through their own interpretations, first, of their lives in a typical American city and then of the horrific tidal wave of panic inflicted by the geographically removed attacks of September 11th. By sharing their innermost thoughts, deeds and misdeeds, these trustworthy and deceitful narrators explore the isolationist, nationalist and anti-intellectual tendencies with which people disengaged themselves from proactive thought in the midst of this particularly pivotal event in history. Richly detailed characters form a labyrinthine collage of philosophical contemplation, socio-political criticism and darkly sharp humor in order to survey the atrophy of individual thought in a country where panic and comfort in consumption are the only modes of behavior endorsed by the mainstream culture.