C.Y. Gopinath
C.Y. Gopinath The book I've just finished is in some ways a literary coup. With Hoyt's War, I've done something most authors would never consider — I took a story set in one country and culture and rewrote it entirely within the completely different political and socio-cultural setting and geography of another country. Both stories were mine.
The story is set in 2020, after four years of President Codbag's government has made America the most reviled and ridiculed nation on earth. President Codbag — who is so much like Donald Trump that I risk being called opportunistic — is standing for re-election after bringing America to its knees in four years of his presidency.
Now he must surpass his own madness, confuse the country even more, and sow such chaos that he will get away with four more years while everyone is trying to figure out what hit them.
My characters are American, the politics is American, and I promise you, you will feel uneasy even as you laugh at the madness. A State Department of Regrets to admit to and apologize for the President's catastrophic lies and mistakes. A tax on America's most popular pastime, sex. The decriminalization of rape, on the grounds that it builds women's character. Turning America into a monarchy, with King Codbag on top. And many many more atrocities.
Creating characters and detailed settings in a country that I have only visited, never lived in has been an extraordinary and exhilarating exercise. I have described in detail — and authentically — places I've never visited, like Tribeca in New York, a plantation in Shongaloo in Louisiana; a circus town called Gibsonton near Tampa, Florida; and the streets of Miami. To mine authentic details, I spent weeks with Google Street View exploring American neighborhoods that featured in my story.
I don't want to spoil your fun, but the book is a mixture of George Orwell and Lewis Carroll, with six impossible things at every turn.
Please read it, Please recommend it. Please share with Democrats and Republicans. It will delight one, and madden the other.
Please give a copy to your local congressman.
The story is set in 2020, after four years of President Codbag's government has made America the most reviled and ridiculed nation on earth. President Codbag — who is so much like Donald Trump that I risk being called opportunistic — is standing for re-election after bringing America to its knees in four years of his presidency.
Now he must surpass his own madness, confuse the country even more, and sow such chaos that he will get away with four more years while everyone is trying to figure out what hit them.
My characters are American, the politics is American, and I promise you, you will feel uneasy even as you laugh at the madness. A State Department of Regrets to admit to and apologize for the President's catastrophic lies and mistakes. A tax on America's most popular pastime, sex. The decriminalization of rape, on the grounds that it builds women's character. Turning America into a monarchy, with King Codbag on top. And many many more atrocities.
Creating characters and detailed settings in a country that I have only visited, never lived in has been an extraordinary and exhilarating exercise. I have described in detail — and authentically — places I've never visited, like Tribeca in New York, a plantation in Shongaloo in Louisiana; a circus town called Gibsonton near Tampa, Florida; and the streets of Miami. To mine authentic details, I spent weeks with Google Street View exploring American neighborhoods that featured in my story.
I don't want to spoil your fun, but the book is a mixture of George Orwell and Lewis Carroll, with six impossible things at every turn.
Please read it, Please recommend it. Please share with Democrats and Republicans. It will delight one, and madden the other.
Please give a copy to your local congressman.
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