"This is a mesmerizing novel, delightfully funny and unpretentiously wise."

-- Kirkus Reviews

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“A rich, paradoxical novel, one that like Percival Everett’s James will likely pay back more the second or third time you read it.”

-- Greil Marcus

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“I was immediately drawn in. What a wonderful novel about an unusual group of California pioneers -- sly, knowing, and deeply human.”
-- Marilyn Johnson, author of The Dead Beat, This Book Is Overdue, and Lives in Ruins

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“The Current Fantasy is a rich, original novel whose prose often lifted me off the page with its jolts of revelation.” 

-- John Thorndike, author of The World Against Her Skin

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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.

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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.

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The Current Fantasy is available in paperback through local bookstores, bookshop.org and Amazon. Also available on Kindle, Apple, and other ebook formats.

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Special thanks to Alan Rifkin for featuring The Current Fantasy (then called Sunland) on his excellent fiction podcast, The Last We Fake.