Grove Press
Grove Press
Grove Press
“Koolaids is the companion guide to The Tibetan Book of the Dead, The Diary of Anne Frank, and the history of the world . . . This is an absolutely brilliant book . . . I think Kant, Jung, and Borges would approve.” —Amy Tan
When National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle finalist Rabih Alameddine’s dazzling literary debut Koolaids was first published, it garnered exuberant praise from Amy Tan, Rick Wallach, and Sarah Schulman, among others. Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic and the Lebanese civil war in Beirut on a circle of friends and family during the eighties and nineties, Koolaids mines the chaos of contemporary experience, telling the stories of characters who can no longer love or think except in fragments. Clips, quips, vignettes and hallucinations, tragic news reports and hilarious short plays, conversations with both the quick and the dead, all shine their combined lights to reveal the way we experience life today in this ambitious debut from bestselling and acclaimed author Rabih Alameddine.
“Daring, dazzling . . . a tough, funny, heartbreaking book.” —Seattle Times
“[A] refreshing statement of honesty and endurance . . . funny, brave, full of heart and willing to say things about war and disease, sexual and cultural politics, that have rarely been said so boldly or directly before.” —Sunday Oregonian
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