The American Cure: A heartbreaking tragicomic tale of dystopia, neuroscience, and the fate of a medically engineered society Kindle Edition

For a limited time, the e-book is specially priced to encourage feedback and foster conversation.HAPPINESS IS NO LONGER A CHOICE; IT’S A PRESCRIPTION.America has disintegrated. The south lies scarred by a radiological catastrophe; foreign governance administers what remains in the north. Within this degenerate autocracy, memories of a great past are repressed, and the future is biomedically engineered.In the wreckage of a dystopian Detroit, Aria struggles to finish her doctoral thesis on the neurochemical basis of pleasure. But her research isn’t just academic – she self-medicates to suppress intense antisocial tendencies born of a troubled past.Her only solace is the music of the subnation’s most pathologically morbid rock star. But when her idol, Thane, undergoes a radical neurosurgical cure, his transformation spurs a cultural whiplash. Then, a disastrous flaw found in her research sends her reeling. While a wave of hyper-gleeful teens invades the pop milieu, Aria goes off her meds and her carefully calibrated balance shatters.Amidst the revolt of melancholic hipsters and a shadowy surrogate government implementing a final solution—one that threatens to minimize free will in all who remain stranded in this sad new world—Aria must decide: will she submit to society’s imposed prescription, or will she accept herself for who she truly is—violent impulses and all?The American Cure is a strange, darkly humorous, and heartbreaking exploration of autonomy, identity, and the perilous pursuit of wellbeing Read more