Heartland

ISBN: 1632061503

Author: Simo, Ana

Condition: Used

In a word-drunk romp through an alternate, pre-apocalyptic United States, Ana Simos fiction debut, Heartland, is the uproarious story of a thwarted writers elaborate revenge on the woman who stole her lover, blending elements of telenovela, pulp noir, and dystopian satire.Theres only one solution for a nasty case of writers block, and thats murder. Specifically, that of one Mercy McCabe, a cunning SoHo art dealer who was once our Latina narrators rival for the scrumptious Bebe. When she discovers that McCabe has squandered Bebes affections after stealing her away, revenge is not enough: she must admit her guilt, sentence herself, and beg for her own execution, Soviet-style.In the all-too-terrifyingly-familiar America of Heartland, the inconceivable has become ordinary: corruption and greed at the top have led to mass starvation in the heartland; hordes of refugees have escaped from resettlement camps and attack the cities; a puritanical Caliphate has toppled Constantinople, with America in its sights. Meanwhile, escaping her New York life in disguise, our heroine lures McCabe to her home turf: a hilltop house in the Great Plains where her parents worked as domestic servants. Her nemesis, though, is slippery, and McCabe disappears, threatening to ruin a homicidal masterplan so detailed as to be akin to love.Heartland is a hilarious, genre-defying debut that confronts taboos of race, assimilation, and sex through a high-voltage tale of love, language, and revenge.