New Novel: 199Topia
David
I'm super-duper excited to publish my debut novel! It's called Nineteen-Ninety-Topia and explores the themes of being an outsider, realizing the "stuckness" of his existence. Y'know? When you're 22 and still living the same life you were when you were 18? Couch surfing. Late-night LAN parties.
Our protagonist, Eli, has come home to Marlin, Texas, on a bus to move back in with his parents after a few years in Oklahoma City doing unfulfilling menial work. But his homecoming feels increasingly uncanny as time blurs and decades move back and forth in moments for him. And as time progresses, his situation shifts from uncanny to the surreal as he faces increasingly harder questions of what it means to grow up. Less a coming-of-age story, and more in line with the German bildungsroman.
I wrote this book for everybody who feels their time has never come. When you see your friends getting older, starting families and careers, and wondering at what point you became defective and didn't grow in the ways they did. Spoiler: You're not defective and will grow in ways they have not. But complacency will set you back in 199Topia, and you must find your way forward.
It's soaked in liminal-suspense, vaporwave, and urbex aesthetics, if you're into that sort of thing.
The e-book is currently free on Amazon Kindle until May 27th, 2025, and right now I'm looking more for word-of-mouth promotion than anything else. And if you have Kindle Unlimited, it's already a part of your available library.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0F8WCF31D
If you know anybody, especially seemingly aimless young men, please recommend this book to them.
