Fka USA

Reed King’s amazingly audacious novel is something of a cross between L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, Douglas Adams’s A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and Ernie Cline’s Ready Player One.

In Reed King’s wildly imaginative and possibly prescient debut, the United States has dissolved in the wake of environmental disasters and the catastrophic policies of its final president.

It is 2085, and Truckee Wallace, a factory worker in Crunchtown 407 (formerly Little Rock, Arkansas, before the secessions), has no grand ambitions besides maybe, possibly, losing his virginity someday.

But when Truckee is thrust unexpectedly into the spotlight he is tapped by the President for a sensitive political mission: to deliver a talking goat across the continent. The fate of the world depends upon it.

The problem is—Truckee’s not sure it’s worth it.

Joined on the road by an android who wants to be human and a former convict lobotomized in Texas, Truckee will navigate an environmentally depleted and lawless continent with devastating—and hilarious—parallels to our own, dodging body pickers and Elvis-worshippers and logo girls, body subbers, and VR addicts.

Elvis-willing, he may even lose his virginity.

FKA USA is the epic novel we’ve all been waiting for about the American end of times, with its unavoidable sense of being on the wrong end of the roller coaster ride. It is a masterwork of ambition, humor, and satire with the power to make us cry, despair, and laugh out loud all at once. It is a tour de force unlike anything else you will read this year.

Romanul uimitor de indraznet al lui Reed King este un fel de incrucisare intre Vrajitorul din Oz de L. Frank Baum, Ghidul autostopistului pentru galaxie al lui Douglas Adams, The Road al lui Cormac McCarthy si Ready Player One al lui Ernie Cline. , Statele Unite s-au dizolvat in urma dezastrelor de mediu si a politicilor catastrofale ale presedintelui sau final. Este anul 2085, iar Truckee Wallace, un muncitor al fabricii din Crunchtown 407 (fostul Little Rock, Arkansas, inainte de secesiuni), nu are mari ambitii in afara de, poate, pierzandu-si virginitatea intr-o zi. Dar cand Truckee este aruncat in mod neasteptat in lumina reflectoarelor, este presat de presedinte pentru o misiune politica sensibila: sa livreze o capra vorbitoare pe continent.