KAH

KAH is a wonderfully hilarious and entertaining satire of rightwing politics and religion. KAH is also an edge-of-your-seat sci-fi thriller. An unlikely blend? Somehow, Mr. Gevins manages to pull it off, creating, in the process, a new genre. Arnold Fenaman is a seemingly ordinary young man who dreams of achieving the impossible, becoming a head coach in the NBA. Broke, desperate, at his wit's end, help arrives for Arnold in the form of an utterly bizarre dream. From that moment on, Arnold Fenaman's coaching quest takes a backseat to a far more pressing concern: saving the human race from almost certain annihilation. Woven into the apocalyptic story are blistering indictments of (among other things) rightwing politics and religious extremism. KAH eviscerates the shortcomings of modern society in the most hilarious way imaginable. At the same time, it asks the entirely serious question: can human civilization, given its current fractured state, survive intact into the next century? The answer is not encouraging. And yet, somehow, against all odds, the author succeeds in making it side-splittingly funny. As a character in KAH explains to Arnold, "I look at the state of the world, and I can either laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh."