Damned - Chuck Palahniuk

The daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, Madison is abandoned, while her parents are off touting their new projects and adopting more orphans. She dies over the holiday of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in Hell. n nAs gleefully, vividly, hilariously obscene as you'd expect.

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Irreverent and hugely entertaining. --NPR n n From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a dark and brilliant satire about adolescence, Hell, and the Devil. n n Madison is the thirteen-year-old daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire.

Abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, she dies over the holiday, presumably of a marijuana overdose. The last thing she remembers is getting into a town car and falling asleep. Then she's waking up in Hell.

Literally. Madison soon finds that she shares a cell with a motley crew of young sinners: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by their doomed fate, like an afterschool detention for the damned. Together they form an odd coalition and march across the unspeakable landscape of Hell--full of used diapers, dandruff, WiFi blackout spots, evil historical figures, and one horrific call center--to confront the Devil himself.

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