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The characters in Caren Gussoff's The Wave live their lives askew from society. They listen to industrial dance music, they have crushes on cyberpunk guys who treat them badly. They are fragile, easily bruised, and they lash out when threatened. One woman steals purses hoping that another woman's possessions might tell her why her own life is so out of shape. Another is left in an eternal present when surgery leaves her with no memory. And in the book's central novella, the girl who put herself at the centre of every scene going still finds herself on the edge, lonely and scared. Amidst the despair, however, is hope, as two lovers interview each other for compatibility. Gussoff's stories tell us more about the loneliness of life in the city than any number of chick-lit novels ever could.