Fiction
for progressives

StarWind Enterprises Inc. is pleased to announce the release by our publishing division, Not In Kansas Press, of its first title, a jumbo 614-page political satire by Irving Wesley Hall.

The Einstein Sisters
Bag the Flying Monkeys

It's thirteen days before the 2000 election in Florida. Can Albert Einstein's three brilliant great-great-granddaughters save America from an eight-year-long catastrophe?

The parents of home-schooled Maxine, Norma and Tina mysteriously abandon them to join a neo-conservative conspiracy plotting a disastrous war in Iraq if George Bush steals the presidency. Immediately the sisters find themselves trapped inside ex-wrestler Reverend Moriah Godley's authoritarian Ten Commandments high school. He has brainwashed his Christian students to fly the Jewish girls to Israel to die in the Battle of Armageddon so Christians can ascend to heaven
in the Rapture.

Soon Shepherd's Vale School's memorial ceremony for a sailor killed by terrorists attracts a star-studded cast of neo-conservative politicians including Bush, Cheney and their top henchmen. The Einstein sisters dub the visitors "Flying Monkeys" after the death squad in The Wizard of Oz.

Jesus of Nazareth is so alarmed that the false prophets' support for nuclear war will become a self-fulfilling prophecy that he returns to earth to inspire his youthful Christian followers. The book's powerful young heroines and their classmates unite to bag their prey in a spectacular climax that surpasses the uplifting spirit of Dorothy's melting of the Wicked Witch and return to Kansas.

The book is both political fantasy and satire, but it deals seriously with political, social and religious themes from international terrorism, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Christian Zionism and its hidden agenda, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the persecution of gays
in the name of religion.

 

Praise for The Einstein Sisters

“Einstein Sisters an informative
and funny read”
— Jessica Lewis, The Evening Sun, Norwich, NY

“Students of the New Testament can easily identify the recurring warnings about false teachers, frauds, charlatans, and false prophets. These warnings are not simply from Paul, they are from Jesus as well. In his political and religious satire, Hall shows how charlatans and cult leaders can make a religion of nationalism and war. He has focused on this blasphemous disaster in the spirit of Dante. Yes, here we have a Divine Comedy that identifies the false gods of hatred and idol worship.”
— Blase Bonpane, PhD.,
Director, Office of the Americas;
host, “World Focus,” KPFK,
Los Angeles, Calif.

“. . . thought-provoking from the standpoint of my Christian beliefs, informative from its historical perspective, and suddenly funny when you least expect it. I was impressed by the author's depth of knowledge of both current politics and biblical history and how successfully he mastered the challenge of weaving both topics into one great novel. We should all experience the simple and uncomplicated relationship that the youngest heroine,
Tina, has with Jesus . . . through
the eyes and heart of a child.”
— Ellen Mordus,
medical worker, Hamilton, NY

 

Upcoming book signings:

Sept. 7, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., 6th annual Hamilton Book Fair
Hamilton Village Green, Hamilton, N.Y.
Sponsored by the Colgate Bookstore.

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