Lord of California: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

Set in another where the USA offers dissolved and California is its separate republic, Lord of California follows the challenges of the Temple family as they am employed at running a farm on a nationalized property parcel in the central San Joaquin Valley. When the family patriarch, Elliot, dies, it’s exposed that he previously been keeping five different households, and in the aftermath of their discovery, his widows and kids must get together to avoid losing all they have. But their livelihood is usually threatened when Elliot’s estranged child attempts to blackmail them, unleashing some violent confrontations between different factions from the family.A sparse family members drama reminiscent of Cormac McCarthy, combined with intimate first-person narratives of Kazuo Ishiguro, Lord of California is a powerful debut novel.