In “Hurricanes Anonymous,” Randall “Nonc” Richard, a UPS deliveryman, is stunned to discover in the days after Hurricane Katrina that his ex-wife has dropped off their son in his truck and disappeared. Charlotte tells the projection of Cobain that he should not commit suicide, that it would hurt her too much. He ultimately programs an image of Kurt Cobain to talk to Charlotte and keep her company. The narrator is worried that his wife may try to commit suicide. The narrator generates the image of the recently-assassinated President to ask him about life, death, and marriage. Her husband, meanwhile, develops a code that allows him to generate a holographic image of a person. To help keep her mind off of things, Charlotte listens to Nirvana for hours at a time. In “Nirvana,” the narrator tends to his wife, Charlotte, who has been temporarily paralyzed following a bad flu. “Fortune Smiles” is a collection of six short stories by Adam Johnson which recounts the stories of people in unusual situations in life.
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