Best-selling pop culture critic Chuck Klosterman's debut novel fuses his love of everything pop with his dark comedic sense. Residents of Owl, North Dakota, are hopelessly behind the times. They completely missed the punk movement and they don't even have cable. Klosterman follows three Owl residents: achingly normal high school football player Mick, 73-year-old Horace, and Julia—a new resident who wants to shake things up, and soon falls in love with a bison farmer.