Posted by Circe on February 21, 19101 at 17:02:00:
A controversial new novel, Moonlight Bowl Manifesto: A Cure for California is ruffling some fundamentalist feathers. Critics have called it literary, but quirky.
Called “whimsically demented” by the publisher, this book takes a tongue-in-chic swing at California’s absurdly square jaw. When a renegade East Coast bowling team accidentally discovers the ultimate weapon against political correctness, they use it to inflict profound social change on bewildered Californians. The bowling team ensures cooperation by holding hostage every major Hollywood star, captured during A Really Big Night of Stars charity telethon, and by threatening to vaporize General Sherman, the largest living organism on earth.
When the captors discover, to their amazement, that the rest of the world is on their side, revolution turns into social experiment. All lawyers are banished to “one of those big square states” and Coot Courts made up of senior citizens liberated from retirement homes take their place.
Groups of native Californians, or “Nates” as they are dubbed by the media, are sent to see how the rest of the world lives. They freeze their tans off on a tiny island near the coast of Wisconsin, and learn what it means to be a real friend in the fictional town of Moon, Arkansas. In this novel, you’ll meet characters like Vivica, a multiple personality who time-shares a body with a Woodstock refugee and the ghost of Margaret Mitchell; and Veronica, a woman who believes her late husband has been reincarnated into the body of a 500-pound pig.
Will California ever be the same, or, in the end, do votes matter more than people? In this novel, Barbara Jones makes you laugh, cry, and think about the possibilities. The book (ISBN 1-891954-164) is published by Russell Dean & Co. Check our some reviews on Amazon.com.