A profoundly disturbing novel that ruthlessly dissects American life in the late 1960s; from the author of the White Album and the Year of Magical Thinking. Benny called for a round of Cuba Libres and I gave him some chips to play for me and went to the ladies room and never came back. Somewhere out beyond Hollywood; hollowed-out actress Maria Wyeths life plays out in a numbing routine of perpetual freeway driving. In her early thirties; divorced from her husband; dislocated from friends; anesthetized to pain and please; Wheth is a woman who has run out of both desires and motives - the epitome of a generation made ill by too much freedom.