Comedian and filmmaker Brooks welcomes the reader to the year 2030 in his
smart and surprisingly serious debut. Cancer has been cured, global warming
is an acknowledged reality, people have robot companions, and the president
is a Jew--and oy vey does he have his hands full with an earthquake-leveled
Los Angeles and a growing movement by the young to exterminate the elderly.
And when the Chinese offer to rebuild L.A. in exchange for a half-ownership
stake in Southern California, President Bernstein is faced with a decision
that will alter the future of America. Brooks's sweeping narrative
encompasses a diverse cast of characters, including an 80-year-old Angelino
left homeless by the earthquake, a trust fund brat with a grudge against
the elderly, and a teenage girl saddled with debt after her father's death,
all of whom get brought together just in time for a climactic hostage crisis.
Brooks's mordant vision encompasses the future of politics, medicine,
entertainment, and daily living, resulting in a novel as entertaining as it
is thought provoking, like something from the imagination of a borscht belt
H.G. Wells.

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