Kirjahaku

In a California devoid of authenticity, Cole Brooski loses his sanity after eating his 1,248th Ascos Taco. Once society gets word of his condition - known as the taco psychosis - excitement spreads across the land. And a justified excitement at that: for only the world's most authentic taco can cure Cole's psychosis. Only problem is: where can the world's most authentic taco be found? The much-anticipated follow-up to Calm Before an Earthquake is accompanied by a similarly psychotic short story, "The Salesman."

Three teenagers gather for their last 420 smokeout and a few moments of coercive friendship, good music and halcyon narcotics. Little do they realize their customized dooms await them... Calm Before An Earthquake - the first of Felix Purat's California Tales - is a tremulous coming-of-age tale cloaked in the ominous nostalgia of a disguised golden age. A powerful refutation of "the end of history" concept, this mouse of a novel lives in a room with an elephant, namely: what went wrong in Eden?