Bad Americans

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>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.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Bad Americans</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is part Boccaccio and part </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Bachelor</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> but it is a creation all its own. Both a novel and short story collection </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Bad Americans</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is at once a powerful portrait of the American pandemic experience and an examination of narrative itself. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Bad Americans: Part I</em> includes the frame narrative and the first six stories. <em>Bad Americans: Part II</em> will conclude the frame narrative and include six additional stories. </p><p></p><p>These two books are the second and third volumes of the profound and daring anthology series <em>The Human Tragedy</em> following the subversive classic <em>Good Americans</em>.</p><p></p>