Title: Blue Gene - Joey Goebel - book
Summary :
The other side of the star-spangled banner.
But what can the very preppy Elizabeth Hurstbourne, with her Danielle Steel look and designer glasses, be doing in this sordid flea market where one rubs shoulders with the dregs of American society?
She's there to pick up her youngest son, the depressed Blue Gene, who barely scrapes a living selling toys at one of the stalls. Blue Gene is a real outsider, a bit antisocial, the kind who wears a Fu Manchu mustache and swallows Prozac for breakfast. And above all, he wants nothing more to do with his wealthy, conservative, and fanatical family. But Elizabeth doesn't see it that way and decides that Blue Gene's atypical, working-class personality would be perfect for boosting her eldest son's popularity. Indeed, he's determined to win a regional election and is suffering from his image as a wealthy heir...
Heartland is a gallery of characters, each one more eccentric, hilarious and original than the last, characters as only Joey Goebel knows how to write them. A truly vitriolic satire of today's America, with its share of rednecks Puritans who were fans of competitions Monster Trucks, set against a backdrop of election campaigns and religious patriotism. In a word: corrosive and enjoyable!
