The Current Fantasy

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In 1914 a counterculture grows in the German woods -- artists and anarchists fleeing cities money and the Internet of their time: telephones telegraph electricity. There's a better life to be had with flowing hair naked farming Expressionist art and freedom.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As the Great War looms closer these bohemians take off for California the America of America where rumor says you can get away with living your own life. The Lanzes a family of four from Berlin follow them to San Bernardino County where Sunland their wild desert flower of a settlement takes root.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I was immediately drawn in. What a wonderful novel about an unusual group of California pioneers -- sly knowing and deeply human.</span></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Marilyn Johnson author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Dead Beat This Book Is Overdue </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lives in Ruins</em></li></ol><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </em><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> </em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Current Fantasy </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>is a rich original novel whose prose often lifted me off the page with its jolts of revelation. </span></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>John Thorndike author of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The World Against Her Skin</em></li></ol><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Current Fantasy</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> explodes on the retina like a tintype brought to life... It has heart soul art and the promise of Giant Vegetables equally charming and alarming as it tells what is perhaps the last great untold chapter of the California Story.</span></p><ol><li data-list=bullet><span class=ql-ui contenteditable=false></span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Don Wallace author of</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> The French House </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>and</span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> One Great Game </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>editor of </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>The Hawaii Review of Books</em></li></ol><p><br></p>