Death and Destruction at the Bridal Shop

Abstract

The work is set in New Orleans in the apocalyptic conditions after Hurricane Katrina and is best characterized as commercially-accessible literary fiction with set in an era of climate change and explores deep themes of love, loss and meaning in a humorous way. It is almost finished and is currently at 137,560 words. It is told from the perspective of multiple narrators as I found that the best way to both approximate life as we experience it and to capture the struggles of a community. My book tells the story of Chrissy, a drug-addicted stripper, who has a wild and unlikely spiritual experience and struggles to retain that miraculous sense of purpose in her life but, nevertheless, ends up in the suburbs of New Orleans married to an orthodontist. Chrissy's search for meaning plays out against the backdrop of hurricane winds and driving rain and flood waters drowning the world, forcing ordinary people to find meaning in the most difficult of circumstances.