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Bad Americans

By Tejas Desai

Bad Americans

By Tejas Desai

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Summer 2020: the Covid-19 Pandemic is raging. A reclusive billionaire, Olive Mixer, calls twelve diverse & lonely Americans to his mansion complex in the Hamptons: nurses, lawyers, mechanics, social workers, students, financial analysts, soldiers, Uber drivers, engineers, hair salon operators. During the day, the guests meet, compete, date, dine, flirt and fight. Each night, one must tell the group a story.
Their tales range widely in subject, style, length and decorum. Many stories respond to each other. They trigger passionate debate and fiery resistance. They change how characters perceive each other and affect the trajectory of the frame narrative. They make us ponder the nature of storytelling itself.
Bad Americans is part Boccaccio and part The Bachelor, but it is a creation all its own. Both a novel and short story collection, Bad Americans is at once a powerful portrait of the American pandemic experience and an examination of narrative itself. Bad Americans: Part I includes the frame narrative and the first six stories. Bad Americans: Part II will conclude the frame narrative and include six additional stories.
These two books are the second and third volumes of the profound and daring anthology series The Human Tragedy, following the subversive classic Good Americans.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
388
Release Date:
2025-09-15
Publication Date:
2025-09-15
Publisher:
New Wei LLC, The
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1734727837
ISBN13:
9781734727838
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
561 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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