"A fine book to carry to the barricades."—Kirkus Reviews"Keenly observed, deeply felt, and beautifully written, Randolph Lewis's Bummerland is the funniest, saddest, and wisest book you'll read this year. You won't find a better guide to the tragic America wrought by Donald Trump and Elon Musk."—Ari Kelman, author of A Misplaced Massacre: Struggling over the Memory of Sand Creek, winner of the Bancroft Prize in History"This acid-tongued, profoundly sad and hilarious, tragic-gonzo adventure trip through a seductively deranged country feels out the grim landscape of the great American derailing of the 2020s. It invents, with a growing number of other shining books, a passionate pragmatic genre to approach a soft revolution devoted to well-being, creativity, equity, sustainability, and solidarity."—Kathleen Stewart, author of A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an "Other" America"A darkly comic, deeply personal meditation on how it feels to live through the violence, absurdity, and precarity of contemporary U.S. life. Randolph Lewis drives the reader through diverse landscapes, ranging from a nightmarish blending of Cormac McCarthy–esque horrors with large-scale Mad Max apocalyptic visions to ordinary scenes of anxious impotence and desperate yearning."—Karen Engle, author of Seeing Ghosts: 9/11 and the Visual Imagination
