Neon Green, Margaret Wappler
Neon Green, Margaret Wappler
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Neon Green

Author: Margaret Wappler

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Unabridged: 10 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/02/2021


Synopsis

It's the summer of 1994 in suburban Chicago: Forrest Gump is still in theaters, teens are reeling from the recent death of Kurt Cobain, and you can enter a sweepstakes for a spaceship from Jupiter to land in your backyard. Welcome to Margaret Wappler's slightly altered 90s. Everything's pretty much the way you remember it, except for the aliens.

When a flying saucer lands in the Allens' backyard, family patriarch and environmental activist Ernest is up in arms. According to the company facilitating the visits, the spaceship is 100 percent non-toxic, but as Ernest's panic increases, so do his questions: What are the effects of longterm exposure to the saucer and why is it really here?

The family starts logging the spaceship's daily fits and starts but it doesn't get them any closer to figuring out the spaceship's comically erratic behavior. Ernest's wife Cynthia and their children, Alison and Gabe, are less concerned with the saucer, and more worried about their father's growing paranoia (not to mention their mundane, suburban existences). Set before the arrival of the internet, Neon Green will stun, unnerve, and charm readers with its loving depiction of a suburban family living on the cusp of the future.

About Margaret Wappler

Margaret Wappler is the author of the novel Neon Green. She has written about the arts and pop culture for the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, Elle, The Believer, The Village Voice, and other publications. She lives in Los Angeles.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brenda

This isn't what you're expecting it to be. It isn't a story about aliens; rather, it's a story about a family who suddenly have a foreign presence in their lives and watching as they find their own individual ways of coping with it. You've got four family members, a typical upper middle-class white h......more

Goodreads review by Alice

A friend of mine suggested Neon Green for our book club because she had picked it up from one of those neat, little, free neighborhood libraries. I'm glad she did because I likely would have never read it otherwise. Looking at the plot, I was mostly uninterested. I don't care for 90s nostalgia or su......more

Goodreads review by Keith

Absolutely adored this moving and tremendously kind novel, and cried VERY MUCH at the end of it. Superb writing, deft characterization, and bighearted as hell. 100% recommended.......more