Last Last Chance Author:Fiona Maazel Addiction, recovery, apocalypse, and lost love have never been as bitingly funny as they are in this ambitious, hugely imaginative debut novel — A lethal strain of virus vanishes from a lab in Washington, D.C., unleashing an epidemic -- and the world thinks Lucy Clark's dead father is to blame. The plague may be the least... more » of Lucy's problems. There's her mother, Isifrid, a peddler of high-end hatwear who's also a crackhead; her twelve-year-old half sister, Hannah, obsessed with disease and Christian fundamentalism; and Lucy's lover, Stanley, who's hell-bent on finding a womb for his dead wife's frozen eggs. And then there is Lucy herself, whose wise, warped voice makes her an ideal guide to love among the ruins. Lucy tries to surmount her drug addiction and to keep her family intact in this brilliant novel about survival, recovery, opportunity, and, finally, love and faith in an age of anxiety.« less