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After a night devoted to marijuana and cough syrup, a charismatic motivational speaker with a monstrous ego, a weakness for women, and a wild imagination becomes the guru of a cult that blends the dangerous and the ridiculous. 25,000 first printing.
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When millennial spiritual hunger replaces '90s infinite perfectibility as the trend du jour, self-help guru Ashton Robinson is there to catch the breaking wave. He's a surfer--a handsome, dreadlocked black Yale grad with a palatable message ("Try Harder") and no real convictions to capsize his motivational juggernaut. Then one night while he's tripping on a heady blend of expired cough suppressant and primo weed, a gender-bending Brazilian midget turns up, seduces him, and delivers this message: "You're hiding your ashay.... God chose you and only you to bring the world to the future. It will be a lonely and difficult journey, but you can do it." Ashton does enough spotty research to find out that axe (pronounced ashay) is more or less the Yoruba equivalent of chi--spiritual life force--as expressed in the Afro-Cuban-Brazilian traditions of Candomble, Santeria, and Vodun. To this he adds a much more rigorous pursuit of Tantric sex, collects a handful of true believers, and converts his California bachelor pad into the residential headquarters of a New Age cult, complete with GAP uniforms and cough syrup sacraments.
Ashton's community eventually comes undone, thanks to intrinsic jealousies and extrinsic envy--as such social-spiritual experiments historically do. But before things fall apart, Ellis pokes some pointed fun at the psychosexual shortcomings of white males and writes a lot of ebullient ménage à many sex scenes, during which Ashton reserves his bodily fluids while manipulating his female devotées to hours-long continuous orgasm. Right Here, Right Now claims to be the transcription of Ashton's ongoing conversation with his pocket tape recorder. This narrative device may provide less subtle character inflection than Ellis intended, but it does assure that the cult's strong suit and the novel's are one and the same--more kinky, invigorating sex than the Heaven's Gate gang ever imagined. --Joyce Thompson
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Trey Ellis is the author of Platitudes and Home Repairs, as well as a screenwriter and essayist. He lives in Santa Monica, California.
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- PublisherSimon & Schuster
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 068484592X
- ISBN 13 9780684845920
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages288
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