Newcomer Coupland sheds light on an often overlooked segment of the population: Generation X, the post-baby boomers who must endure legislated nostalgia (to force a body of people to have memories they do not actually own) and who indulge in knee-jerk irony (the tendency to make flippant ironic comments as a reflexive matter of course . . . ). These are just two of the many terse, bitterly on-target observations and cartoons that season the margins of the text. The plot frames a loose Deca