Douglas Coupland's New Novel

Coupland's new novel has a title, a book cover(s) and a release date (by the way, what is jPop'). Here's an excerpt:

The summer of 1997, Hale-Bopp rode the sky above Hollyburn Mountain every night for weeks on end. Sometimes it was buttery and weak, and sometimes it looked like felt cut with blunt kindergarten scissors — but not once during those weeks did I ever get used to seeing the damn thing up there. It wasn’t natural. Nothing in the sky seems natural to me except the sun and the stars. Even the moon, for lack of better word, is on probation. Why the thing can’t just stay full all the time drives me nuts. Crescent? Waxing? Waning? Oh, just make up your mind.

2005 is going to be Canada's year.