ALL FAMILIES ARE PSYCHOTIC

In a cheap motel an hour from Cape Canaveral,Janet Drummond takes her medication,and does a rapid tally of the whereabouts of her childrid.Wade has spent the night in jail;suicidal Bryan is due to arrive at any monent with his vowel-free girlfriend,Shw,and then there is Sarah,'a bolt of lightning frozen in midflash'-here in Orlando to be the star of Friday's shuttle mission ,Wishn Janet's ex-husband and his trophy wife also in town,Janet spends a moment contemplating her family,and where it all went wrong.Or did it?

Douglas Coupland was born on a Canadian NATO base in Baden-Sollingen,Germany,in 1961,but now lives and works as a wrter,designer and sculptor in Vancouver,British Columbia.His previous books include Microserfs,Polaroids from the Dead,Girlfriend in a Coma