Girlfriend in a Coma

Haunted by their friend's illness, a group of young friends struggle to find meaning as the world collapses around them in this meditative literary novel. On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passi