Kalifornia: A Novel

Kalifornia: A Novel by Laidlaw, Marc. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312088309.

Meet Sandy Figueroa, TV teen heartthrob of the future. Thanks to the miracle of the wires, his every sensation can be shared by audience participants across the world. Well...could be. Since Mom died in an accident on the moon, the family show has gone into reruns. Only Sandys older sister remains on the wires in her highly rated show, Poppy on the Run. And now, on the eve of Californias bicentennial, Poppy plans some fireworks of her own: live on the wires, shes going to bring new life into the world - Calafia, the first human born wired. Which makes the child more valuable than Poppy knows. Which explains why someone kidnaps her. Which means that, by fates fickle hand, its up to Sandy to rescue the child of the future. What lousy news for the world! Marvelously inventive, wildly funny, Kalifornia is a stunning excursion into the State of the Future.