Side Effects: A Footloose Journey to the Apocalypse is a novel about the post-World War II baby boom generation and the factors that have led to the coming apocalypse. The novel provides a portrait of the boomers by following the lives of a zany, idealistic couple and their growing family through the ?50s, ?60s, ?70s and on to the present. Beginning in the Midwest on a honeymoon motorcycle trip the couple sets the goal of putting down roots in California, the land of wild beauty, abundance, and political activism. After a stint on the East Coast, they settle in the West. The music, art, science, and politics of the era are palpable throughout the book.

Montana Katz is a psychoanalyst. She has written two other novels (Clytemnestra's Last Day and Living Dolls and Other Women), a play (adapted from Clytemnestra's Last Day by the same name), books on psychoanalysis (Contemporary Psychoanalytic Field Theory: Stories, Dreams and Metaphor and Metaphor and Fields: Common Ground, Common Language, and the Future of Psychoanalysis), and two award-winning books on gender bias (The Gender Bias Prevention Book and, with co-author Veronica Vieland, Get Smart: What You Need To Know But Won't Learn In Class About Sexual Harassment And Sex Discrimination). Her writing is situated at the confluence of fact, history, and the unconscious.