"There are ruined things in the town of New Dutchess, New Jersey. A hotel that was never finished; a train line that never came. This is the town that Åsa Morgan thought she'd leave behind; this is the town Virgil Carey couldn't escape. It's the town where Dean Polis first started writing songs, and the town where something awful fell from a building one day. It's where the band Alphanumeric Murders got their start, and where a series of tape recordings reveal the troubled history the band and the lives of its members. Ex-Members is a novel about punk scenes, old secrets, and hometowns that stalk us and break our hearts despite our best efforts to escape"--