Mike Karpa – författare

It''s 1991. Gay American Conner has found refuge in Tokyo after a rough coming out. But a spectacular economic meltdown has crushed Japan''s high-flying dreams, and now Tokyo is going sour for Conner, too. He''s turned to crime to bail out an ex-boyfriend, he''s alienating friends and he''s started sleeping with a woman. When a crime scheme goes south, he scours Tokyo''s dimly lit night scene for a solution. Conner and fellow refuge-seeker Marika, who has fled a failing suburban marriage, agree to a shady caper that may save or doom them both. As gangsters, grifters and police close in, the two must grapple with questions of crime and honesty, and to whom-and whose laws-to be loyal.

Gay twenty-something Mardy lives in a globally warmed world, where sophisticated AIs ensure the survival of humanity but have no rights. Mardy wants to make it big as an artist, but can''t pretend his AI friends aren''t people-not to achieve success and not even to avoid imprisonment. When he starts falling for a sexy but secretive tech titan, Mardy begins to suspect everything he thought he knew about the world is wrong. And his art just may be the key to unlocking it all.

Everything goes right for the White family. They''re upper middle class, live in the trendy Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, and have prestigious jobs and trust funds. Dad teaches screenwriting at New York University, while Mom is a professional Spanish/English interpreter. But Dad has a secret. Mom has a bigger one. And daughter #1 refuses to be a legacy to Yale: she abhors privilege. Five-year-old daughter #2 gets life advice from music videos, but will inclusivity be enough to save them from not getting everything they want?