An excerpt from GOLDEN STATE, the 2014 novel that predicts California secession, or Calexit, after the election of a right-wing presidential candidate who runs on a border-wall platform. Today, the people of California are voting. At issue: our very identity, at its most fundamental level. The ballot boxes are ready, the people are poised to…Continue reading Could Calexit really happen?
Category: California novels
Golden State – the novel – Q&A
How the novel Golden State came to be. Read the Q&A. Random House Reader’s Circle: Why did you decide to set the novel against the backdrop of a vote for secession? Michelle Richmond: I am fascinated by the fact that so often things that seem impossible are actually very much within the realm of possibility.…Continue reading Golden State – the novel – Q&A