Worlds Apart
Where every day’s a magic carpet ride
American jihad startles every living soul in Mixum County. At the center of it all is Arnold Ivan Goodstein Jr. — “AIG Jr.” — a young, semi-accomplished, budding Jewish entrepreneur, and the unlikely cast he keeps around him.
Goodstein employs the waspy, would-be writer-dreamer Sedgwick Frampton; in the cubicle next over sits the disgruntled, semi-disillusioned, would-be covert convert-to-Islam, Afro-American Damahl. The “clash of titans” Worlds Apart isn’t — it’s the clash of ideals, cultures, dreams, perspectives, and happenstance, and it makes the whole thing spin like a well-oiled turnstile.
From a sweeping patriotic tribute by Mixum County’s own Senator Satchel Damedici to the illusory exploits of private investigator Tiger Johnston, the novel weaves dream sequences in and amongst its characters’ harsh, petty, potent, and powerful realities.
What to expect
Humorous, if not raucous — steady doses of greed, fanaticism, ambition, and well-attuned insensitivity, all delivered with Williams’ signature creative zest. Read on, and into Worlds Apart.
