Elysiana Author:Chris Knopf Gwendalynn Anders, a mid-Western — girl who s never seen the ocean, — wonders what was in that joint she — smoked a week before waking up on — Elysiana, and why it feels like the trip — will last the entire summer of 1969. — Jack Halcyon, living atop an abandoned — twenty-story hotel, wonders how — he s able to ponder the incongruities of — life after le... more »aving a big chunk of his brain