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Think adolescence is hell You have no idea... Welcome to Dantes Inferno by way of The Breakfast Club from the mind of American fictions most brilliant troublemaker. Death like life is what you make out of it. So says Madison the whiptongued 11yearold narrator of Damned Chuck Palahniuks subversive homage to the young adult genre. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off touting their new film projects and adopting more orphans. Over the holidays she dies of a marijuana overdoseand the next thing she knows shes in Hell. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it a twisted inferno inspired by both the most extreme and mundane of human evils where The English Patient plays on repeat and roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb. However underneath Madisons sad teenager affect there is still a child struggling to accept not only the events of her dysfunctional life but also the truth about her death. For Madison though a more immediate source of comfort lies in the motley crew of young sinners she meets during her first days in Hell. With the help of Archer Babette Leonard and Patterson she learns to navigate Helland discovers that shed rather be mortal and deluded and stupid with those she loves than perfect and alone.