No Aloha : The Friendly Happy Music of the Past

Sometime early in the new century following the collapse of the former United States, Pastor-Governor Bill Kingson and high-ranking members of Team Jesus flee the theocratic genocidal police state they have created in Colorado. All that remains are scurrying masses of ex-suburbanites desperate to escape from the Golden West gated-community republic and Disney's ReLive USA! theme-park nationstate for the legendary safety of Bulgaria. A band of feral youths join together for protection and love as they struggle to cross the city formerly known as Denver. Gus, the oldest, who dreams of being a sumo champion; his partner in crime and love Maude, a onetime little league superstar pitcher, Gladys, a 10 year old electronics whiz, and Walter, a 12 year old boy who wears girl's clothes and may be the Messiah, become the post-apocalyptic nuclear family that cares for each other in the face of a historical disaster they don't begin to understand. Hovering between a terrifying present and a frightening future, No Aloha begins where William Gibson's novels leave off, projecting us into a world of a war torn adolescent consciousness of blind loyalties and survival skills that supersede the confines of race and gender.