FKA USA
Subtitle: The Complete, Unabridged and Annotated Edition: A Novel
By: by Reed King
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Published: May 30, 2019
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9781250108890
First sentence: You're sixteen going on sixty, Truckee, my mom liked to say, giving me a cuff.
Description: 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.

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.
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