Girlfriend in a Coma - P.S. Author:Douglas Coupland On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. — As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, pa... more »ssing through a variety of careers -- modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition -- before finally reuniting on a conspiracy-driven super-natural television series. But real life grows as surreal as their TV show as Richard and his friends await Karen's reawakening . . . and the subsequent apocalypse.« less