Just Like a Real Person

Douglas Diaczuk

• Publisher: Anvil Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781772142327
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literature General
• Index: Literature

Just Like a Real Person is a story about broken cars and broken people. A story of intoxication, sobriety, and potent memories of a woman in a yellow sundress. But, it's also a story about love that asks what it means to finally feel, after years of feeling nothing but numb.

The story begins with a crash, and throughout the story, we bear witness to many more — both literal and metaphorical — as cars wrap around lamp posts and jump medians, and as the humans inside them are unknotted from smouldering metal and the entanglements of their choices.

"He" is a nameless, indiscriminate addict. A fuck-up without a driver's license, who has caused forty-two car crashes in eight years, and makes his living by picking through the shattered belongings and lives he leaves behind. "She" is Lola, and Lola is unsure where she's going, just that it's far from there.

Disorienting as an acid trip, the story winds through the aftermath, watching as he collides with recovery, women, and his own imperfect recollections while searching for the elusive girl in the yellow sundress.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• I MEET LOLA
• I MET TREVOR
• I MEET SHAW
• I MET YOU
• I MEET VICTORIA
• I MEET VICTORIA
• I MET YOU
• I MEET VICTORIA’S FATHER
• I MET YOU
• I MET LOLA
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR