Jyze of the Heavenly Year

<p>(For All Annals)</p><p>  While preparing to write a novel about a torrid love triangle he'd stumbled into in his early twenties the author G.P. Sandefjord conjures up a bold new prose style for his first-person narrator in the novel -- a younger version of himself. This new style which the author dubs half seriously and half not jyze rapidly grows -- or better to say bursts -- into an entirely serious literary form all its own.</p><p>  Meanwhile a crisis arises concerning the author's day job and he decides to suspend work temporarily on the novel and take jyze out for a kind of shakedown cruise focusing on the job crisis. And...a dozen jyze-obsessed years later the cruise returns to port with the completed draft of an eight-volume 4000-page series called Annals of the Jyze Age of which Jyzeburst is Annal 1.</p><p>  With the Year 2000 Millennium at their center all eight annals proceed chronologically and build on their predecessors. But each is also designed to -- and does! -- stand alone as a novel. And all are set in a single U.S. West Coast metro area at the heart of which rises Jyze City.</p><p>  Right at the start then -- spoiler alert for this and the following paragraph -- a digital disruption torpedo (Annal 1). Not too long after that a wrenching death in the family and an almost simultaneous breakup of a longtime zen marriage (Annal 2). Next a couple of unforeseen plot shifts causing plenty of confusion and anguish (Annal 3) (also there and elsewhere: Grunge! New World Order! Global roasting!). And (Annal 4) the jyzer whiffs again and again back in the romance bazaar but then a blast of a love mash-up -- something astoundingly new -- but not without a glitch or two. (Jyze always growing and changing and begetting new glitches.)  </p><p>  Then an official domestic partnership (Annal 5) as all glitches miraculously clear at least for a moment. Followed by (Annal 6) a wingding of a wedding a ribald honeymoon a world-rocking globalization protest a thousand-year celebration with real terror mixed in -- and then three months later arrives the True Millennium. (Erotic explicitness warnings on Annals 4 5 and 6.) A brief respite of sorts follows and then 9/11 hits and a couple of mad wars launch (Annal 7: Jyze of the Heavenly Year) just as a landmark yearlong lunar birthday rolls around and a long-lost prodigal son shows up in J-town. And then finally (Annal 8) condo life looms (oh no!) not to mention surefire domestic bliss (could it be?) but first jyze must stick the landing -- and does!     </p><p><br></p>