6-26-11 Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland - Fiction

4 - This is a trippy look at the end of the world and what if you could do it all over again. It's 1979: Karen is 18 and has just had sex with her boyfriend for the first time and has her whole promising life ahead of her. Then she falls into a coma and sleeps for the next 17 years. While she is sleeping, her daughter is born and her friends and boyfriend go on to live interesting and mostly active lives. She wakes up in a completely different world and has some news to share: the end of the world is coming. It's interesting to see how her friends have gotten along without her and how her daughter, raised mostly by her parents, reacts to her awakening. Plus the weirdness of her revelations and the subsequent events makes this an interesting read.