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Gwendalynn Anders, a midwestern young lady who's never seen the ocean, wonders what was in that joint she smoked weekly before waking up on Elysiana and just why it feels as though the trip can last the entire warmer summer months of 1969. Jack Halcyon, living atop an forgotten twenty-story hotel, amazing things how he's able to ponder the incongruities of life after leaving a major chunk of his brain at the field of a major accident. Borough council president Norman Harlan amazing things what cruel God put him on the same footing with Avery Volpe, the fearsome captain of the beach patrol. Twelve miles long and a mile vast, Elysiana is an island off of the coast of NJ resting astride the convergence of powerful mistake lines, social, politics, and existential. It's a location of beauty and insanity, distributed by the angelic and profane, where cops, thieves, prodigies, and the promiscuous end up at the haphazard mercy of your lunatic providence. Other players add a globe-trotting whiz kid, an Italo-Hispanic offense boss, a browsing on aesthete and his vulgar roommate, a career car-stereo thief, and a seven-year-old young lady who's probably spent a lot of time with the dead bodies in the dunes. This is a story that can have only occurred on the Jersey Shore during the warmer summer months of '69, a period when the sociable fabric was tearing apart, in a location where that fabric acquired never been perfectly knit along. Elysiana is both a fabulist's take a look at a lost time and place and a hurtling thriller. It's an account of two types of change: the non-public and the grand, all played out out within the isolated magic of your barrier island.