<p> Check this: <em>Big Banana, </em>agricultural giant turned luxury brand, has become the world's coolest corporation. Unbelievably profitable, socially significant, it's <em>Big Banana </em>who controls the culture now. People <em>love </em>them. People <em>worship </em>them. Whole city-blocks painted yellow, and <em>Big Banana's </em>logo on just about every jay-walker and DJ in town. But to hear Miranda Swami tell it, they're <em>baaaaaad </em>news. Like really bad.</p><p> Miranda Swami: collegiate punk by day, wildly-famous influencer and street-artist by night. But <em>shhhh, </em>it's a big secret. As her online alter-ego "Gwami the Seer," Miranda has built exactly the kind of sycophantic following you'd need to take down a multi-national banana company singlehandedly. And tonight, at a gallery opening the whole world will be watching, Miranda plans to do just that. Only it's never that simple, is it?</p><p> Watch a battle ensue between two titans: <em>Big Banana </em>vs. <em>Gwami the Seer.</em> Watch the vengeful Miranda fall into a strange, awesome world of twisted conspiracies and Dark Web maneuverings, gunslingers, shapeshifters, philosophical frogs, and the Devil himself. Watch our heroine wade through a maddening web of intrigue and nonsense to get what she wants. Only, well, what <em>does </em>she want?</p><p> <em>Bananas! </em>is a rich, ripe, and deeply imaginative exploration of the millennial mind. Equal parts absurdist and irreverent, this fast-paced, slobber-knocking, thrill-ride of a novel seeks to answer one hell of a prescient question: What does it mean to grow up as part of a generation unable to understand itself?</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>