Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)

Something happened in the mountains. Maybe it was a bomb. Maybe it was Montana. Maybe it was Tokyo. This delightfully chaotic novel, written round-robin style by a dozen LibriVox volunteers during NaNoWriMo 2007, asks more questions than it answers, and somehow that's the entire point. Who is Liz - or is it Elizabeth? Is she a wife and mother, or something else entirely? And that husband of hers: loyal spouse or covert operative? Each chapter spins the mystery in wild new directions, as if multiple authors simultaneously dreamed the same feverish spy-thriller and then compared notes over drinks. The result is less a coherent narrative than a playful embrace of narrative uncertainty, a novel that refuses to resolve its own mysteries because the questioning is where the fun lives. Part mystery, part meta-commentary on storytelling itself, Yellow Sheet is for readers who enjoy the journey more than the destination - and who suspect the destination might be a mountain that doesn't exist.