Killing Williamsburg
By: Bradley Spinelli
Publisher: Le Chat Noir.US
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York?]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780615801414
Subjects: Suicide; Generation X; Fiction
Description: In 1999, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg is hit by an epidemic of suicide. The burgeoning hipster enclave rapidly becomes a macabre spectacle, witnessed and deftly described by Benson, a reflexively cynical Gen-Xer and New York transplant. As his friends kill themselves off and the "Bug" spreads to Manhattan, Benson forms a crew to clean up the mess of his adopted city, fighting against hopelessness--Amazon.com.