That Crazy Perfect Someday - Softcover

Mazza, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933527862 ISBN 13: 9781933527864

Publisher: Turtle Point Press, 2017

Synopsis

“[A] beach-bag must-have.” — Booklist (starred review)

“[A] stunningly confident debut novel.” — Doug Dorst, New York Times bestselling coauthor of S.

”Is there a genre for surf science fiction? San Francisco’s Michael Mazza may have just invented it.” — The Mercury News

 

The year is 2024. Climate change has altered the world's wave patterns. Drones crisscross the sky, cars drive themselves, and surfing is a new Olympic sport. Mafuri Long, UCSD marine biology grad, champion surfer, and only female to dominate a record eighty-foot wave, still has something to prove. Having achieved Internet fame, along with sponsorship from Google and Nike, she's intent on winning Olympic gold. But when her father, a clinically depressed former Navy captain and widower, learns that his beloved supercarrier is to be sunk, he draws Mafuri into a powerful undertow.    
Conflicts compound as Mafuri's personal life comes undone via social media, and a vicious Aussie competitor levels bogus doping charges against her. Mafuri forms an unlikely friendship with an awkward teen, a Ferrari-driving professional gamer who will prove to be her support and ballast. Authentic, brutal, and at times funny, Mafuri lays it all out in a sprightly, hot-wired voice. From San Diego to Sydney, Key West, and Manila, That Crazy Perfect Someday goes beyond the sports/surf cliché to explore the depths of sorrow and hope, yearning and family bonds, and the bootstrap power of a bold young woman climbing back into the light.

About this title

About the Author:

Michael Mazza is a San Francisco Bay Area fiction writer whose stories have appeared in Other Voices, WORDS, Blue Mesa Review, TINGE, and ZYZZYVA. He is also an internationally acclaimed art and creative director working in the advertising industry. That Crazy Perfect Someday is his first novel.

Review:

"That Crazy Perfect Someday is a stunningly confident debut novel, as agile, quick, and sure-footed as its protagonist. Its narrative surprises hit like rogue waves but feel inevitable in retrospect, expressions of this book's unique physics. The surfing scenes are among the best I've ever read, and the vivid and richly imagined detail calls to mind the work of Adam Johnson and T.C. Boyle. Mafuri is one of those rare characters to whom you'll have trouble saying goodbye when the pages run out." --Doug Dorst, New York Times bestselling coauthor of S.

"Michael Mazza has written an unforgettable tale about a young woman surfer. Whatever her complicated life throws at her--sharks, envious competitors, near death experiences--she dives into headfirst. She is fierce, independent, a wiseass, and still searching for where she belongs. I don't surf, I don't even know how to swim, but I would follow this young woman anywhere." --Diana Wagman, author of The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets

"[This] debut novel rips through the near future...powered by the megawatt voice of Mafuri Long, a spritely surfer babe from Generation Z whose epic wave crests through this tale."--Kirkus Reviews

"Feisty hero Mafuri's first-person narration gives voice to the rarely glamorous and often infuriating world of being a female athlete. This is a beach-bag must-have." --Booklist (starred review)

"Mazza is one of the quickest, most creative minds I've ever come across. Every idea he comes up with is worth paying attention to." --Toby Barlow, author of Sharp Teeth and Babayaga

"The seas are changing, as waters warm and currents shift. It's an environment author Michael Mazza knows well, having followed his son's surfing career, and it became the vision for his first novel, That Crazy Perfect Someday. Set in the not-too-distant future, Mazza's characters face increasingly flat seas and sharks, as well as personal struggles while caught up in the world of competitive surfing." -- Josh Chamot, Huffington Post

"Mafuri's voice is well defined: youthful and full of slang. She is a consistent and powerful character throughout--an open book with her thoughts, particularly through her revealing inner dialogue." --Foreword Reviews, Editor's Pick

"Is there a genre for surf science fiction? San Francisco’s Michael Mazza may have just invented it." --The San Jose Mercury News

About this edition

• Publisher: Turtle Point Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1933527862
• ISBN 13: 9781933527864
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318