DISSOLUTION: A Novel

By Richard L Turnbull

Book Overview

Dissolution is a story of the fragility of democracy. It is a dystopian view of America's possible descent into a federation of provinces loosely bound together by a federal charter. It is a multi-generational story of two families; mill owner and mill worker whose lives are entwined. It is a story of divisive cult politics, the rise of white supremacy, and international conspiracy. As the politics of division harden into fault lines of separation, a weakened America, manipulated by a cabal of wealthy industrialists, shatters into provinces of mutual distrust and animosity. This scabbed and scarred body politic, wounded by political vitriol from politicians dedicated to Party over Country, is in crisis. A saga of contrasted wealth and poverty, education and ignorance, health and sickness, Dissolution is a story of America's trajectory - a trajectory of a country too big and too divided to govern. It is a story of multiple generations of two families, who, although largely unaware of each other, have lives entwined in ways that mirror the deepening inequality of life in America. Eddie Randall, son of a millworker, and Ben Thomas, son of the mill manager, are childhood friends whose paths diverge. As the Randall family struggles to survive, the Thomas family amasses enormous power and wealth. The World Business Federation (WBF) which controls the levers of power, works to exaggerate cultural fault lines through its control of media, culminating in a Constitutional Convention remaking America into a provincial republic. Born of distrust and intolerance, the Intercontinental Province slides into a dystopian surveillance state.
Dissolution is written as a warning that the hateful political rhetoric, multiplied and amplified by social media and extremist "news" outlets, may lead America to the brink of collapse.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09TNF57B4
• ISBN13: 9798477096626
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"