Four friends in South Jersey work dead-end jobs but find community and purpose in their creativity and involvement in the South Jersey/Philadelphia music scene. Following a couple of unexpected deaths, a chance encounter with a mysterious record label exec throws the lives of everyone involved into hallucinatory disarray. Strange events ensue: poltergeist activity, savage claw marks on the top of a car, and unexplained bloody wounds. Some of the friends are thrown into moral dilemmas, making choices that might not be entirely their own. ​Set in the late 1980s and told in the first person by the four main characters, the novel straddles the intersection of horror, humor, and surrealism. It ultimately stands as a treatise on the ferocity and urgency of creativity as well as the predatory aspects of the music industry.