Our ecstatic days : [a novel

Our Ecstatic Days begins as the memoir of a young mother desperate to forget a single act, committed out of love and fear, that has changed forever the world around her. In the waning days of summer, a lake appears, almost overnight, in the middle of Los Angeles. In an instant of either madness or revelation, convinced that the lake means to take her small son from her, Kristin becomes determined to stop it. Three thousand miles away, on the eve of a momentous event, another young woman -- with a bond to Kristin that she can't even know -- meets a mysterious figure who announces in the dark, "The Age of Chaos is here." Against a forbidden landscape that shimmers with destiny and yearning, Our Ecstatic Days finally takes place on the terrain of a defiant heart. Human connections multiply into astonishing twists of fate -- by which the wrongs of an obsolete century may be set right -- and parallel lives spin faster toward the possibility that they will once again unite, electrifying a vision of the century to come. Pag : 290 Erickson Continues The Themes Of Millennial Obsessions That Preoccupied Him In The Sea Came In At Midnight (1999), This Time In A Lush, Profoundly Disorienting Story Saturated In Metaphors Of Birth And Apocalyptic Decadence. As It Opens, Kristin, Who Appeared In Sea, Is A Former Rough Chick Made Tender By Motherhood. She Lives In A Hotel With Her Young Son Kirk (short For Kierkegaard), On The Edge Of A Lake (called Lake Zero, As In, You Know, Ground Zero) That Suddenly Appeared And Overtook Much Of Downtown Los Angeles At The Turn Of The Millennium. Steve Erickson.