FKA USA: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

‘An epically concocted apocalyptic eyesight of America in all its faded glory.’ – Kirkus

‘…a visionary head-trip of apocalyptic political satire; a drain quest tale that reads like someone’s high school RPG session gone full-on Technicolor bonkers.” – NPR.org

Reed King’s amazingly audacious audiobook is something of a mix between L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, Douglas Adams’s A Hitchhiker’s Guidebook towards the Galaxy, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, and Ernest Cline’s Prepared Player One.

In about FKA USA: A Novel Reed King’s wildly imaginative and perhaps prescient debut, america has dissolved in the wake of environmental disasters and the catastrophic policies of its final president.

It is 2085, and Truckee Wallace, a factory worker in Crunchtown 407 (formerly Little Rock, Arkansas, before the secessions), has no grand ambitions besides maybe, possibly, losing his virginity someday.

However when Truckee is thrust unexpectedly in to the spotlight he’s tapped from the President to get a sensitive political mission: to deliver a talking goat across the continent. The destiny of the world depends upon it.

The problem is-Truckee’s uncertain it’s worth it.

Joined on the road by an android who would like to become human and a former convict lobotomized in Tx, Truckee will get around an environmentally depleted and lawless continent with devastating-and hilarious-parallels to our own, dodging body system pickers and Elvis-worshippers and logo girls, body system subbers, and VR addicts.

Elvis-willing, he may even lose his virginity.

FKA USA is the epic audiobook we’ve all been waiting for about the American end of that time period, with its inescapable sense to be on the incorrect end of the roller coaster trip. It is a masterwork of ambition, humor, and satire with the power to make us cry, despair, and chuckle out loud all at one time. It really is a tour de power unlike other things you will listen to this year.