The story of a love that begins and ends in Simpus. Violet O'Shea, tall as an oak tree, gentle as an ox, is adrift in her new rural college existence. Her nights are a whirl of unpleasant sex and hashish, and her days are filled with terror. For a mysterious, radioactive hole has appeared in the middle of her Connecticut college town, and is growing, poisoning every living and inanimate thing that dares to come near. In the midst of this heightening ecological crisis, Violet finds unexpected compassion and tenderness through her disabled cosmology professor, who is almost completely paralyzed. Together they navigate through the Hole's changing of the landscape, and share an intimacy that shakes both of their worlds to the core. But on the foundation of chaos, not even lovers are built to last. As it turns out, a woman in love, nor a man in chains, are of much cosmic significance. ((Be Advised, this is a Second Draft))
4 parts