The Fortune Follies

The Fortune Follies is an over 90,000-word, alternate history science fiction novel that follows several members of the Igarashi family as they settle into their post-war lives in the late 1940s. The story begins some years after the end of World War Two, resulting in a victory for the allies due the use of innovative war automatons provided by Sinclair Industrials Manufacturing Corporation. Now, years later, American society is recuperating from the human loss of war, an uneven social system, and a massive corporation that has caused a technological boom. Seeing a new opportunity, Sarah Igarashi departs from her home on the coast of Alaska to meet her cousin in Seattle where she stumbles to find her place in a new city filled with otherworldly technologies and ideals. In contrast is her cousin, Penelope, who is quite comfortable navigating through a rapidly changing society while also pursuing a singing career with the assistance of her uncle and close cousin, George. The primary opposing force in the novel is society itself and how it has been twisted by the massive corporation that is Sinclair Industrials, which impacts each character, and elicits a unique response in each of them. However, in pursuing their own goals, each family member is met with outward and inward conflicts; from familial deception to social upheaval and natural disasters