an audacious marvel of a novel about baseball and a future america from the always inventive and exciting author of the love wife and who s irishthe time a not so distant future the place autoamerica the land half under water the internet the new face of government is aunt nettie a mix of artificial intelligence surveillance technology and pesky maxims the people have been divided and no one is happy the angel fair netted still have jobs and literally occupy the high ground while the mostly coppertoned surplus live on swampland if they re lucky on the water if they re not the story to a surplus couple he was a professor she s still a lawyer is born a blasian girl with a golden arm at two gwen is hurling her stuffed animals from the crib by ten she can hit whatever target she likes with a baseball her teens find her playing happily in an underground surplus league when autoamerica re enters the olympics with a special eye on beating chinrussia gwen attracts interest soon she s at net u falling in love with her coach and considering crossing over even as her mother is challenging the autoamerican way with lawsuits that will prove very dangerous an astonishing story of an america that seems only too possible and of a family struggling to maintain its humanity in circumstances that threaten their every value even their very existence
gish jen
knopf publishing group
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