High Drama in Fabulous Toledo

Martin wants to jump off a grocery store sign and Ellen wants to swallow her engagement ring.  Jane wants a good beating and Stef wants a castle to himself.  Jay wants a bathrobe with a hole in it and Molly wants a cyborg upgrade.  When these six characters find themselves embroiled in a kidnapping gone wrong, reality jumps its tracks and Toledo, that rust belt bastion of disrespect, becomes a playground for fiction and fantasy.

James' postfeminist fiction is smart and accesible;  it skips along like a flower girl in moon boots.  Still, her trippy narrative packs a wallop with its wry, skin-tight prose, at once insightful and corrosive to reality.  Like a postmodern Flannery O'Connor story, High Drama in Fabulous Toledo is unafraid to shake the balance of order and chaos, or toy with our most private fantasies of escape.