And Now You Can Go Author:Vendela Vida A sharply humorous, fast-paced debut novel about the effects?some predictable, some wildly unexpected?that an encounter at gunpoint can have on the life of a (previously) assured young woman. — The gun in question is pointed at twenty-one-year-old Ellis as she walks through a New York City park. In the end she is unrobbed and physically unharmed.... more » But she is left psychologically reeling.
Over the next few weeks Ellis keeps everyone at bay: the police, the men who want to save her (?the ROTC boy? poet and ?the red-faced representative of the world?), and the university therapist who hints that her sweaters may be too tight. But when Ellis accompanies her mother, a nurse, on a mission to the Philippines, she finds that life?even if held up?cannot be held back, and neither, finally, can she.