Chuck PalahniukFiction · Satire·b. 1962
Damned
Synopsis
Thirteen-year-old Madison Spencer, the daughter of famously self-absorbed Hollywood celebrities, wakes up in Hell. She believes she died of a marijuana overdose while her parents were at the Academy Awards, and she is stuck in a cell with a Breakfast Club-style group of damned teenagers: a prom queen, a nerd, a jock and a punk.
Narrating from the afterlife, Madison sets out across a Hell of foul landscapes and famous tyrants to plead her case before Satan. Chuck Palahniuk wrote the 2011 novel as a darkly comic riff on Judy Blume's coming-of-age books, and its sequel is Doomed (2013).
How it reads
Prose complexity 7/10
Content warnings (1)
Substance Abuse