Imagine if Texas seceded from the United States, led by a character eerily similar to former President George W. Bush, who does such ridiculous things as rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Christco.
Hard to fathom? Maybe not.
That's the premise of Charlie Green's new novel, "The Shah of Texas," which published Feb. 18 from Gold Wake Press. Green is a senior lecturer in the Department of Literatures in English in the College of Arts & Sciences.
"I've never had so much fun writing," said Green of the comic satire, whose main character is a journalist uncovering a torture prison camp in Texas, which is at war with the rest of the country. Other characters include Dick Dick Dick Dick Dick, the Shah's right-hand man; Bob Toose, the Secretary of Conflagrational Elucidations; and Maud Lynne, a pro-Shah newspaper columnist. "Think 'Dr. Strangelove' meets Mel Brooks meets '1984,'" Green said.
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