Love-Shaped Story (Paperback)

A darkly enchanting tale set in Seattle in the 1990s -- the fictional life of Kurt Cobain's childhood imaginary friend...'Sometime on or before the afternoon of April 5, 1994, Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, killed himself with a single shot to the head. He wrote a one-page note in red ink, addressing it to "Boddah", his childhood imaginary friend...' (taken from a Cobain web 'shrine') Welcome to rainy Aberdeen, a small logging town near Seattle, sometime in the early 1990s. Homer 'Boddah' Alienson is a lonely insomniac who spends his days watching Twin Peaks and the first Gulf War unfold on TV, and his nights taking long walks through woods that smell of rain. What's more, ever since childhood he has been convinced that the entire population of Aberdeen, including his mother, is possessed by bodysnatchers that are human only in appearance, 'different' beings from whom he has tried to protect himself by never going to sleep. Homer has always lived a life apart -- until the day he meets a boy named Kurt, loafing about under a bridge. It is Kurt who reveals to him the way to sleep: heroin, nirvana...