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Death Confetti: Pickers, Punks and Transit Ghosts in Portland, Oregon

by Jennifer Robin
Death Confetti: Pickers, Punks and Transit Ghosts in Portland, Oregon

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ISBN13: 9781627310307
ISBN10: 1627310304
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Jennifer Robin is a freak magnet and she attracts the oddest, saddest, most enigmatic freaks around. That may be because she’s a freak herself — a beautiful freak with big city and backcountry wisdom leaking out of her brain onto every page of Death Confetti. There’s a lot of high energy and brave living going on in this book. It observes the world (specifically Portland, Oregon) getting weirder and darker, but somehow Robin steadies it in the palm of her writing hand and makes everything seem like it’ll be okay — maybe even more than okay.  Recommended By Kevin S., Powells.com

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With savage humor, Death Confetti is performance artist Jennifer Robin’s collection of autobiographical sketches of Portland, Oregon, from grunge-era obscurity to its current media-darling status. As an only child raised by reclusive grandparents in upstate New York, Jennifer recalls that she felt "anemic for the real." At seventeen she broke loose and made her way to the west coast. "Civilization is a nightmare-illusion," Jennifer writes, "a three-dimensional spreadsheet perpetuated by machines that hypnotize meat." 

In a city that’s stranger than fiction, grocery-store checkers and meth-heads loom as lost gods. We’re introduced to the lady tweaker "Chew Toy," who wears moon boots and sings hair-metal songs all night as she collects recyclable bottles. Jennifer visits a bar where executives simulate doggie-style sex acts on the dance floor. Then there’s the tales of late-night life on the city’s buses and light rail.

Jennifer reflects on her early terror in Catholic school and phone calls with her far-out mother, who disclosed that her gynecologist was a murderer. In the all-too-true pages of Death Confetti, Robin remembers her life among noise musicians, junkies, and her escape from a boyfriend who insisted on reviving the lives of hundreds of deceased fruit flies.

Death Confetti jolts the senses, and lingers like a mosquito bite to the Portland of everybody’s soul.


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Jennifer Robin lives in Portland, Oregon. She writes grotesque prose. Her novel, Bouzi, was published in 1999.

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