ORIGINAL CLOTH EDITIONFrom the nation that elected Barack Obama in the flames of economic disaster comes the first novel of the New Era, The Mere Future, by award-winning novelist, activist, and playwright Sarah Schulman. In this dystopian vision, New York City has morphed into an idealized version of itself, the result of what the newly elected mayor calls The Big Change. Rent is cheap, homelessness is over, and everyone works in Marketing. Despite the utopian surface, however, there is a disturbing malaise that infects the population. Our heroine, a lowly copywriter, and her girlfriend Nadine just want to fall in love all over again, but can't help noticing that the social packaging may not be recyclable. Calling on all genres-literary fiction, mystery, fantasy, poetry, and stand-up comedy-Schulman invents a literature that reflects the lives we live right now while being funny, sexy, and open-hearted. Sparkling with witty and provocative social commentary, The Mere Future is a startlingly sharp-eyed prophecy of the world to come that blows literary conventions out of the water. - catalogue - 20090901 | The Mere Future by Sarah Schulman, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters