WHITE PEOPLE ON VACATION
A NOVEL BY ALEX MILLER
“White People on Vacation joins binge drinking and anti-capitalism, sex and environmental wreckage, coming of age and apocalyptic doom. It’s a hilarious novel about despair, a satire of American ugliness that achieves moments of great beauty."
— Jennifer Wortman, author of This. This. This. Is. Love. Love. Love. |
White People on Vacation captures the hopes and fears of a generation struggling to live meaningfully in the era of late-stage capitalism. The novel follows a group of college students (white) who travel to Hawaii on a vacation (cursed) paid for by their parents (loaded). Alex Miller paints a sun-drenched portrait of the young and upwardly mobile as they attempt to leverage generational wealth and skin color to attain the good life. White People on Vacation is a beach read for socialists, a swan song for human aspiration in the age of climate apocalypse.
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About The Author
Alex Miller is the author of two other books of fiction—the story collection How to Write an Emotionally Resonant Werewolf Novel and the novella Osama bin Laden is Dead. His stories have been published in dozens of literary magazines, including Flyway, Pidgeonholes, Back Patio, WhiskeyPaper, Maudlin House, MoonPark Review, and Fifth Wednesday Journal. His career as a newspaper designer has allowed him to live and work in Hilo, Hawaii; Daytona Beach, Florida; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Denver, Colorado, where he currently resides. A Florida native, he grew up in Spring Hill and Columbia, Tennessee.
More Books!
How to Write an Emotionally Resonant Werewolf Novel
The stories in How to Write an Emotionally Resonant Werewolf Novel (Unsolicited Press, 2019) were written in the years following the disastrous U.S. invasion of Iraq and global financial crisis. They are stories about getting laid off from work and dumped by the person you love, stories about war and skipping school and waiting tables. The collection is a handy field guide to people who are alive today and attempting to navigate a world that appears to be growing ever more hostile to their very existence. Some of the stories are funny!
ReviewThe collection was reviewed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
" ... the author’s dedication to portraying slices of everyday life with pithy compassion means that there are enough moments of startling beauty to make the 150-page journey worthwhile. Each story explores a moment in time where a protagonist wrestles with their choices, both monumental and pedestrian, and what those choices entail. Mr. Miller often returns to the concepts of unrequited love, infidelity, war — all part of a larger discourse on the gap between what one’s life is and what one wants it to be." — Wendeline O. Wright |
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Osama bin Laden is Dead
Osama bin Laden is Dead (Vagabondage Press, 2013) is a small book that will change your life. It is a novella belonging to the genre escape from small-town hell. It's a story about growing up in a sad little town in the middle of post-industrial nowhere, going to school with a bunch of rich kids who hate you because you buy your clothes at Walmart, and dealing with parents who try to manipulate you into enrolling in a creepy Christian college where morons go to be brainwashed. It's a book about finding a way out and a better way to live.
All This Can Be YoursAvailable as an ebook on Amazon
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Stories
- The Downtime Review published River God | October 2023
- The Lit Nerds published Twenty Amazing Facts about Sharks | May 2023
- Flyway published Cube Town | March 2023
- A Thin Slice of Anxiety published All of America Shocked and Heartbroken | October 2022
- Roi Faineant published Leave No Trace | October 2022
- Impractical Things published The Next President of the United States of America | May 2022
- Gastropoda published my short story Environmental Catastrophe Blog | December 2021
- Glitchwords published We Are Going to Need You to Work on Your Day Off | October 2021
- MoonPark Review published Hero with a Big Sword | October 2021
- Spillover Magazine published Try This Easy Weekday Meal! | May 2021
- The Mark Literary Review published We Stole a Van | February 2021
- Misery Tourism published The End of Twitter | April 2020
- Back Patio Press published Blast Pattern | March 2020
- Nauseated Drive published Why I Am Changing My Major | February 2020
- Collective Unrest published We Interrupt This Love Story for a Plot Against the Tyrant | May 2019
- Pidgeonholes published My First Year in the City | April 2019
- Ghost City Press published The Graveyard of Airships | March 2019
- The Sandy River Review published Kandahar | February 2019
- Harpoon Review published Trajectories | December 2017
- Maudlin House published How to Write an Emotionally Resonant Werewolf Novel | December 2016
- The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature published Mule Day | 2016
- Rabbit Catastrophe Review published An Invisible Place above Us | 2015
- Galavant published Gestation Crate | 2015
- Contraposition published Death Cult | March 2014
- Black Wire Literary Magazine published Thermite and Mandy | 2014
- Fifth Wednesday Journal published Jamie | 2013
- Bartleby Snopes published Emoland | 2013
- The Bombay Literary Magazine published This Place Can Be Beautiful Again | 2013
- Barely South Review published Nashville | 2013
- The Binnacle published Smoking and Other Bad Decisions | 2013
- The Boiler Journal published The Layoff | 2012
- New Wave Vomit published From a Safe Distance and Love in the Time of the Etruscans | 2012
- Queen Vic Knives published Who Are You? I'm a Bear | 2012
- Open Road Review published Today We Are Still Married | 2012
- Screaming Seahorse published The Worst Chinese Restaurant in Detroit | 2012
- We Feel Pretty published Michelle and Rockets | 2012
- WhiskeyPaper published Fawn | 2012
- DogzPlot published This is Easy | 2012
- Thunderclap published You Can Have It All | 2011
- One Title published You Are Not Eighteen Anymore | 2011
- The Ofi Press published Infidelity | 2011
- The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature published The Mule Man of Maury County | 2011
- Dr. Hurley's Snake Oil Cure published Skipping School | 2010
Hit Me Up
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