In Heaven Everything is Fine

“This is the saddest story deconstucted. As a collage of ill-fated love triangles, this neo-Pop romance may be for its generation what Barthelme's Snow White was for the sixties. DeShell’s debut is provocative, compelling, and too smart to be hip--the author is his own psychosexual and philosophical brat pack.”
—Robert Steiner, author of Bathers and Dread
 

“In Heaven Everything is Fine plays many fields. Lists of lit-crit and rock-and-roll Top Ten hits, headlines, TV news, and ads are part of the story. DeShell’s quirky, bittersweet characters wander in and out of clubs, bars, and apartments, hungering in a deadpan, I-don't-care way for a sort of integrity, for a kind of meaning. In Heaven Everything is Fine is as tender as it is smart.”
—Lynne Tillman, author of Haunted Houses and Absence Makes the Heart