Description: From the award-winning avatar of contemporary urban theater and author of such modern classics as Talk Radio and Drinking in America comes this outrageous first novel about five suburbanites whose banal existences intersect in one violent -- and life-altering -- night at the local mall.

Mal, a thirtysomething speedfreak, shoots his mother, torches his house, and heads to the local mall with a sack of weapons and a plan for more mayhem; Danny, a voyeuristic businessman with a fetish for young underwear models, gets caught by mall security peeking in dressing rooms at J.C. Penny; Jeff, a teenager with existential troubles, drops acid and departs on a philosophical nightmare; Donna, a hungry, unsettled housewife, wants to get laid; and Michel, a Haitian immigrant and mall security guard, seeks salvation. Each longing for a kind of satisfaction, they are led to the modern plaza of possibility, the shopping mall, where they mix and conflict in explosive ways.

This satirical and provocative first novel dissects two of the author's favorite themes: American suburban life and "normalcy". As in his renowned plays, Eric Bogosian delivers a truly dark, hilarious, and biting commentary on American culture fraught with sex, drugs, violence, and congested thinking.

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