Freeway: La Movie

Freeway: La Movie is a cyberpunk novel set in mid-21st century Cuba that crosses the absurdity of American pop culture with the deep, fragmented unease of Cuban-US relations. It is a satirical novel that attempts to reconcile the body and the machine, analog and digital, post-industrial overdevelopment and post-socialist underdevelopment, Cuba and the US, reality and fiction, and the plasticity of personal identity and rigid categories.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 180 pages
Publication date: 17 November 2022
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing

Freeway: La Movie is a novel that crosses the absurdity of American pop culture with the deep, fragmented unease of Cuban-US relations. Set in mid-twenty-first century dystopian Havana, the novel narrates the adventure of two misfits wandering the construction site of a colossal freeway-to-be, a mysterious feat of engineering that slices through Havana, designed to connect the US and Cuba. The two embark on a futile journey, overlain with the elusive filming of a documentary about the freeway construction. Both the film quality and interior monologues drift aimlessly, haunted by Cuban history and US pop culture.

Freeway: La Movie is a satirical novel that attempts to reconcile what might be hopelessly irreconcilable: the body and the machine; analog and digital; post-industrial overdevelopment and post-socialist underdevelopment; Cuba and the US; reality and fiction; the plasticity of personal identity and rigid categories such as gender, class, and nationality. Through the clash of utopian promises and dystopian realities, Freeway reveals the unease of contemporary culture from the US to Cuba.

Dimension: 203 x 127 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781646051823