The Answer Is Always Yes

By turns darkly comic and suspenseful,The Answer Is Always Yestakes readers to New York's club scene in the mid-1990s, when Ecstasy and rave music kept a generation entranced. A sleek reinvention of the coming-of-age tale, this is the story of a high-school outcast from Teaneck, New Jersey, who begins his freshman year at NYU determined to be cool, at any cost. Soon Matthew Acciaccatura is transformed into "Magic" Matt, rising to fame as a promoter at one of the city's hottest venues. Matt's story is glossed in the margins by a German researcher, Dr. Hans Mannheim, whose strange connection to our protagonist remains unclear - until the novel's stunning conclusion. Creating a novel of dazzling personas and shattered illusions, Monica Ferrell proves to be one of the most original writers of her generation in this sizzling debut. The questions and discussion topics that follow are intended to enhance your reading of Monica Ferrell'sThe Answer Is Always Yes.We hope they will enrich your experience of her revolutionary novel.Ferrell, Monica is the author of 'The Answer Is Always Yes' with ISBN 9780385339292 and ISBN 0385339291.