Nothingness
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Torrential rains are turning Dan Geistman's hometown into a disaster area of closed roads and wild rumors. Far from uniting the community against a common threat, the floodwaters just add to the reservoir of irrational suburban discontent. The locals need to find someone to blame for the whole mess, and skeptics like Dan are the perfect scapegoat.
Nothingness is a black comedy about belief and delusion, set in the Biblical deluge of March 2010 in the American northeast. This is a place where men are men, mobs are unruly, and cars are very dangerous.
Dan's estranged father returns from battling 9/11 conspiracy theorists in New York City—just in time to fix his ex's broken sump pump. Dan's mother is teaching Don Quixote to yet another roomful of bored university students while drinking her way through a string of futile online dates. For Dan, a high school student in rain-besieged Framingham, dealing with his family's dissolution leads to drug abuse, bad moods and poor decisions. As the deluge continues, the townsfolk get water on the brain. They begin to interpret incidents of teenage mischief as Satanic rituals and abandon their skepticism like an old mattress in a flooded basement. When a charismatic pastor launches a crusade against the plague of doubt in town, things quickly get out of hand. At the close of hockey season in Massachusetts, there's nothing like a good old-fashioned witch hunt to take people’s minds off their watery woes.
Steve Farrell
Steve Farrell lives in Massachusetts. He writes humorous, intellectually engaging novels about the issues of our time.
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