The basis for the movie High Resolution From one of this generation's most talked about and
enigmatic writers comes a deeply personal powerful and moving novel about family
relationships accelerating drug use and the lingering possibility of death. Taipei by Tao Lin
is an ode--or lament--to the way we live now. Following Paul from New York where he comically
navigates Manhattan's art and literary scenes to Taipei Taiwan where he confronts his
family's roots we see one relationship fail while another is born on the internet and blooms
into an unexpected wedding in Las Vegas. Along the way-whether on all night drives up the East
Coast shoplifting excursions in the South book readings on the West Coast or ill advised
grocery runs in Ohio-movies are made with laptop cameras massive amounts of drugs are ingested
and two young lovers come to learn what it means to share themselves completely. The result is
a suspenseful meditation on memory love and what it means to be alive young and on the
fringe in America or anywhere else for that matter.
