Travis Jeppesen: Suiciders

Chronicling the last days of a religious cult in rural America, Jeppesen’s debut novel ‘Victims’ was praised by the Village Voice for its “artfully fractured vision of memory and escape,” and by ‘Punk Planet’ for its masterful balance of “the laconic speech of teenagers with philosophical density.” In ‘The Suiciders’, Jeppesen ventures beyond any notion of fixed identity. The result is a dazzling, perversely accurate portrait of American life in the new century, conveyed as a post-punk nouveau roman.