The Woman Is Dead

About the Book

Our first character awakens trapped in an empty warehouse and suffering from amnesia. Luckily, there’s entertainment: the contents of several file cabinets. But the people in the files aren’t much better off. One is a missing exotic dancer. Another thinks the government controls his brain with sonic waves. A third kidnaps the sonic wave guy. Or was that ‘gets kidnapped by?’

Read this book before they start assigning it in English class! Author Colin McFadden-Roan has created a story that is at once festively adventuresome and darkly introspective: an inventive, tightly crafted work, with uncannily true dialogue that alternates between hilariously inane and wickedly pithy.

Like coke, the words line up. He arranges them into outrageously unbelievable observations but you don’t care—so long as he’ll hit you baby one more time. Your world slowly asphyxiated, you read on, until after two breathless hours—not because you couldn’t breath but because you didn’t need to—you emerge, born again, like some psycho religious zealot only saner.

With multiple narrators, multiple story lines, and an engaging pace of action, The Woman Is Dead is sure to challenge even the most thoughtful reader to think again.

About the Author

Late Autumn, 1996: author Colin McFadden-Roan had had enough. But instead of being trendy and going postal, he made like Iggy Pop, hopping a Greyhound and becoming "The Passenger." Ten days, he meandered from Carolina to California and back. During that time, he formulated the characters that became this book.