About Utopia Café
An amusing young romance intersects with an underground freedom movement after the US experiences the comic and tragic results of living under a repressive socialist regime that over-promised utopia and created a poorly run police state.
Great for adults of all ages, book clubs, and smart college and high school students, with appealing characters and storylines, laugh-out-loud humor, surprising twists and thriller scenes, and engaging dialogues and narratives, from art to music, race relations to socialism, and Christian beliefs to the Holocaust.
After Izzy, an attractive college senior, joins an underground freedom movement organizing against the repressive socialist regime, she is challenged by the idea of recruiting Tom Hardy. He’s an unlikely choice as a rising young star in the regime. But Izzy heard Tom may have private sympathies for freedom, and he may be able to get valuable information as the underground’s mole in the regime. He’s also nice looking.
Izzy’s plan to meet Tom works like a charm. But neither of them can risk expressing subversive views until they trust each other. Will their amusing and cautious interactions and gradual revelations develop into a deeper relationship of shared beliefs, even love? Meantime, will increasing friction between the two marginally competent Party leaders provide an opportunity for the underground to take action?
How could the small underground force possibly prevail, and what roles could Izzy and Tom have? Will there be an armed conflict and what will the military do? Will Tom be reunited with his capitalist parents whom he denounced as a child, and who have been in a secretive gulag prison camp in Alaska? Will Izzy obtain closure by confronting the guy who raped her?
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Author Bio:
David Hejna is a writer and retired lawyer. His 30+ year legal career included positions with a prominent law firm and a large corporate law department. During his last ten years of legal practice, David served as the General Counsel, Vice President and Corporate Secretary for a high growth technology company. He has a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School and bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the University of Michigan.