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Surfing with Sharks: Madness and the Tumultuous Summer of 2020

Author	Seve Verdad

Surfing with Sharks: Madness and the Tumultuous Summer of 2020

Seve Verdad

Like so many during the summer of 2020, writer Seve Verdad felt he was watching America, and the world, go mad. In his new novel, Surfing with Sharks, Verdad relives events of that summer and examines universal questions: Has the world gone crazy or am I crazy?…Both? The result is a poignant critique of America’s political and cultural wokeness and COVID-era policies through his main character, an entrepreneur driven to extremes within a universe of extremes. “While a struggle against madness is a timeless literary theme, the book’s narrator is uniquely contemporary,” Verdad says. “Surfing with Sharks reflects both the absurdity and gravity of life itself through a lens focused on the summer of 2020, and the struggles of that summer persist today, may indeed be timeless”….. In Surfing with Sharks, we learn that Colton Candide has done time in prison and rebounded, only to find his efforts thwarted when his burgeoning Fisherman’s Shore Bait and Tackle business is declared nonessential and fails under oppressive pandemic lockdowns.

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Categories: Book, Century fox, Contemporary Fiction, History & Criticism, Literature & Fiction Tags: 21st Century History of the U.S., Classic American Fiction, Political Humor (Kindle Store)

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Colton Candide did some prison time a decade ago but managed to bounce back, only to find his efforts thwarted as his burgeoning bait and tackle shop fails under oppressive COVID lockdowns. His fiancée has been quarantined in El Salvador for weeks and by May their Los Angeles apartment has become Colton’s personal dungeon. He needs to get back to work, or fishing, surfing, and sailing, anything to escape this toxic existence and isolation threating to drive him crazy.

And there is an escape. Colton just can’t see it. All will come clear in a matter of months however, as the COVID pandemic, lockdowns, bankruptcy, riots, woke doxers, an indictment, and real and perceived ailments, aliens, and zombies all collude and conspire to torture and kill Colton…and make him a killer, a killer who finally gets his mind right and cures himself.

A plot, a conspiracy. That’s what it is. And Colton is consumed by it, his madness informed by conversations with Princess, an abandoned teddy bear he rescues in the aftermath of a riot.

This is the book woke cancel culture wants banned. A story of our times, the basic theme – a struggle against madness – timeless. Colton Candide is uniquely contemporary, his descent not only the result of his own flaws but realities within an unreal world that has gone insane. Colton may indeed cure himself, yet we must wonder if madness itself isn’t the cure.

Seve Verdad

Seve Verdad is the author of FINDING DEVO - a novel adventure. In his new novel, SURFING With SHARKS, Verdad relives the pandemic summer of 2020. Like so many during that summer, he felt he was watching America, and the world, go mad, and the book examines universal questions: Has the world gone crazy or am I crazy?...Both? The result is a poignant critique of America’s political and cultural wokeness and COVID-era policies through his main character, an entrepreneur driven to extremes within a universe of extremes.

Seve Verdad earned three graduate degrees from Oregon State University after studying abroad as well as in California and Oregon. He was born and raised in southern California and lives there now with his wife, never too far from the beach.