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Genre: Literary Fiction
About mdievaLocation: Suburban Philadelphia Home Region: Age:25 Website: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=31500363 Favorite novels: the wind-up bird chronicle. love in the time of cholera. lolita. a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. how i became a famous novelist. candide. Favorite writers: haruki murakami. dave eggers. douglas adams. gabriel garcia marquez. hunter s. thompson. douglas coupland. walt whitman. t.s. eliot. Favorite music: bands that are loud, instrumental, and play for longer than six minutes per song. Non-noveling interests: food, fish, and the rock and roll music |
Joined: September 4, 2008 This Year: Official Participant NaNoWriMo History: NaNoWriMo posts: 86 NaNoWriMo buddies: 13
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Brief Author Bio: Mike DiEva, like most of the under-30 suburban white middle class in America, is generally discontented, pretty much always broke, and usually not satisfied with the ambient temperature. He is a one-time NaNoWriMo participant and a one-time winner, finally putting the million-monkey Shakespeare question to rest. He currently brings down the property values in an obnoxiously wealthy suburb of Philadelphia, where he lives with several fish that he's named after better writers than himself. |
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Synopsis: Barren Hill
Even though they've stayed close, John Lightstreet hasn't actually seen his ex-girlfriend Hannah Holden since she moved across the country four years ago. When she tells him that her new boyfriend has proposed to her, John decides to take something seriously for the first time in memory. He gathers his best friend Tony Ayers, his MP3 player, and some snacks, and sets off on a 3000 mile road trip in Tony's hearse, from the outrageous neon clusterfuck of the East Coast to the breathtaking isolation of the Southwestern deserts, to win back his true(st) love. John's on-again-off-again girlfriend, Tony's irresponsible roommates, Hannah's kinda-sorta-maybe fiance, elegiac diner waitresses, hypermacho frat dudes, a Vietnam vet named Seldom Seen Steve, and several hallucinations born of uncomfortably long stretches without rest stops are among the caltrops and spike strips trying to keep them from their ultimate goal. But the biggest obstacle John faces now is figuring out what their ultimate goal actually is.
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