They tried to make their world one big art and music studio, for each other. Should everybody else have been suspicious?
Can John Morganstern's friends live for each other’s sake instead of living the latest version of “The American Dream?”
These creative-type kids may be willing to sacrifice all the usual incentives, but can they do enough for each other to survive in an economy that’s starting to work like a universal Tupperware Party?
Morganstern — underling at Sac’to Weekly — has made their story his job, even if he has to go on the run, using stolen means, to work it out.
From motels across America, then from The Special Economic Zone just added north of The Asian People’s Republic, Morganstern dispatches a report.
Before he absconded, California was less grandiose than his eventual stay in the SEZ, where he’s cohort to the regional Party official and to George King, who is moving up from rock-star, to Governor of The Golden State, to something more regal than both.
They're interested in getting Morganstern back home and to the internment camp where everyone’s trying to outlast a bad patch of the new value-added economy.
Maybe he could figure out who’s keeping life from becoming a delusional cartoon, if he wasn’t becoming ever more delusional.