The media paints Faye as a radical hippie with a sordid past, but as far as Samuel knows, his mother was an ordinary girl who married her high school sweetheart. Now she has suddenly reappeared, having committed an absurd politically-motivated crime that electrifies the nightly news, beguiles the Internet, and inflames a divided country. He hasn't seen his mother, Faye, in decades, not since she abandoned her family when he was a boy. Meet Samuel Andresen-Anderson - stalled writer, bored teacher at a local college, obsessive player of online video games. "Sparkling, sweeping debut novel that takes in a large swath of recent American history and pop culture.
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