From the bestselling author of the generation-defining classic Fight Club comes a dark and brilliant satire about adolescence, Hell, and the Devil. “As gleefully, vividly, hilariously obscene as you'd expect. . . . Irreverent and hugely entertaining." —NPR Madison is the thirteen-year-old daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire. Abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas, she dies over the holiday, presumably of a marijuana overdose. The last thing she remembers is getting into a town car and falling asleep. Then she's waking up in Hell. Literally. Madison soon finds that she shares a cell with a motley crew of young sinners: a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker, united by their doomed fate, like an afterschool detention for the damned. Together they form an odd coalition and march across the unspeakable landscape of Hell--full of used diapers, dandruff, WiFi blackout spots, evil historical figures, and one horrific call center--to confront the Devil himself.

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Published Oct 2, 2012

256 pages

Average rating: 7.87

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Papa J
10/10 stars
Ayos naman.
Hungry_ghost
Ok- any theories on why Babette always asks for the time?
Shahna
6/10 stars
I get why people don't like it.
It's fine. It's goofy.
He wrote some scenes for shock value and they don't really hit. Those are meh.
Catcat
10/10 stars
Amazing book!!
LiziB
8/10 stars
Very good, very much not a YA novel though it sounds like it, and not nearly as mentally scarring as most of Palahniuk's books.