A satirical adventure story featuring two young teens, in the style of
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
and
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
.
“This eye-popping page turner hits on all levels and will keep you up way past your bedtime . . . A coming of age thriller with imagination, guts, and soul.” —
EcoLit Books
“Here we have a Huck Finn for our environmentally damaged age, lost on a river, and moving downstream with humane monsters and monstrous humans.
We Are All Crew
is hilarious and sad, slapstick and grotesque, fantastical, phantasmagorical, but never, ever just child’s play.” —Marlon James, author of
A Brief History of Seven Killings
Two fourteen-year-old runaways hell-bent on reaching California end up aboard the Tamzene, a mysterious riverboat that runs on alternative fuel. Piloted by the enigmatic Dr. Seabrook, the Tamzene travels the waterways of a bizarre, fun-house image of the US. This is a satire that questions the sanity of our basic principles, as
Gulliver’s Travels
did for eighteenth-century England. Kaylie Jones is the award-winning author of five novels and a memoir. She teaches writing at two MFA programs and lives in New York City.