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"i; the worst american novel," is the somewhat fictionalized experience of the unintentionally misogynistic author, as he details his slow–growing enlightenment in the face of a disfiguring disease. Told from multiple perspectives (his own as he writes, the main character he creates, and, later, from himself again, but one year before he started the novel), the book walks through the narrator’s life in a dead-end bar job as he takes his first real step toward his dream of writing. This act of reflection brings him face to face with the abuse he suffers from the men he idolizes, the destructiveness of his past infidelities, and his inability to stand on his own. Ultimately, the narrator pieces together the source of the loneliness that compels his behavior, and, through creating his main character, how the world might have misunderstood what God really is.

Status:
Completed
Approx 75,000 words
Autobiographical Fiction

About the author:
Christopher Weil is the Senior Writer and Director at Jellyvision Lab (www.jellyvisionlab.com), an agency that specializes in the creation of interactive experiences that mimic human conversation. (This work requires scripting in the form of complex, branching flowcharts, making him particularly adept at structure.) While with this company he has also produced numerous short stories, nonfiction articles, and educational cartoons for an award-winning project aimed at increasing children’s reading comprehension. In college, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he performed in a weekly improv group, The Wet Paper Bag, before dropping out his senior year to become one of Chicago’s least-satisfied bartenders.

Raised Jewish, but with a technically Christian mother, Christopher grew up with a unique perspective on religion. That half-Jewness, when combined with his nigh-degree in philosophy, gave very messy birth to this book.