‘An epically concocted apocalyptic vision of America in every its faded glory.’ – Kirkus

‘…a visionary head-trip of apocalyptic political satire; a kitchen sink 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 cross between L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz, Douglas Adams’s A Hitchhiker’s Guidebook to 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 possibly prescient debut, america has dissolved in the wake of environmental disasters as well as the catastrophic policies of its last president.

It really is 2085, and Truckee Wallace, a factory employee in Crunchtown 407 (formerly Little Rock, Arkansas, before the secessions), does not have any grand ambitions besides maybe, possibly, losing his virginity someday.

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

The problem is-Truckee’s not sure 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 navigate 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 might even lose his virginity.

FKA USA may be the epic audiobook we’ve all been looking forward to about the American end of times, with its inevitable sense of being on the incorrect end from the roller coaster ride. It is a masterwork of ambition, humor, and satire with the energy to make us cry, despair, and giggle out loud all at once. It is a tour de drive unlike anything else you will pay attention to this year.