Meaningful Gestures At The End Of The World: A Search

By C.J Oliver

How Does One Find Meaning In A Meaningless World?

In this trippy psychedelic novel, the world is weeks from ending. The government has set up safe zones for people to wait out the end in safety, leaving the cities to the millions who turn them into a hedonistic purgatory. Toilet paper and drugs have become currency. Everyone bikes everywhere because gas dried up and electricity has become sporadic or unavailable.

Dragging himself to one party after another at the whim of his best friend Tim, the narrator, still mourning the death of his wife, grows bored with the hedonism, and starts counting the days until the end.

When a chance encounter leads him to an experience that he can't explain, it throws him into a mission in search of a answer to a question he doesn't know.

With a backpack full of food, drugs, and toilet paper, the narrator leaves a near paradise to hit the road in search of that answer. His journey leads him to a hitman seeking redemption that he worries can never come, a town living in an underground bunker who believes the end of the world is a hoax, a prisoner who has all the ability to escape but none of the desire to, a group of fake nuns who have turned a church into a house of intimacy, and his bipolar sister-in-law who thinks he murdered her sister.

From violence to romance, from imprisonment to freedom, from hate to forgiveness, the narrator takes us with him, as he is forced to confront his feelings on who he is and how he can find any meaning or purpose in a world that's going to end.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09XZHG5LF
• ISBN13: 9798805340322
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"