The Death of the Amerikan Novelist

The Death of the Amerikan Novelist is the second published novel by Psychedelic Existentialist Karhlyle Fletcher. As the head of this movement, Fletcher's work defines the school of thought through blending elements of 1800s realism with the absurd vulnerability achieved through the internet era. From family trauma to drug experimentation, this novel explores what it is to grow up as an independent woman during modernity. Rebelling against culture's pressure from every direction the main character Joan Gotlaniska is forced to judge and handle life on her own, relying on paint, smoking, and a sense of detachment from all that is around her. However, this false distance only further ties her to her home, Detroit, and the people within it, no matter how separated she believes herself to be. A coming of age story that does not shy from the lewd or tragic, the Death of the Amerikan Novelist's achievement is creating a lucid and breathing portrait of a modern woman with her irresistible charms and undeniable flaws. Joan Gotlaniska is an action hero and superfluous woman both, like Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin before her, and so similarly suffocated by the consequences of her own situation.