<div><p>The year is 2024. Climate change has altered the world’s wave patterns. Drones crisscross the sky, cars drive themselves, and surfing is a new Olympic sport. Mafuri Long, UCSD marine biology grad, champion surfer, and only female to dominate a record eighty-foot wave, still has something to prove. Having achieved Internet fame, along with sponsorship from Google and Nike, she’s intent on winning Olympic gold. But when her father, a clinically depressed former Navy captain and widower, learns that his beloved supercarrier, the <i>USS Hillary Rodham Clinton</i>, is to be sunk, he draws Mafuri into a powerful undertow. Conflicts compound as Mafuri’s personal life comes undone via social media, and a vicious Aussie competitor levels bogus doping charges against her. Mafuri forms an unlikely friendship with an awkward teen, a Ferrari-driving professional gamer who will prove to be her support and ballast. Authentic, brutal, and at times funny, Mafuri lays it all out in a sprightly, hot-wired voice. From San Diego to Sydney, Key West, and Manila, <i>That Crazy Perfect Someday</i> goes beyond the sports/surf cliché to explore the depths of sorrow and hope, yearning and family bonds, and the bootstrap power of a bold young woman climbing back into the light.</p><p><b>Michael Mazza</b> is a San Francisco-area fiction writer whose stories have appeared in <i>Other Voices, WORDS, Blue Mesa Review, TINGE</i>, and <i>ZYZZYVA</i>. He is also an internationally acclaimed art and creative director working in the advertising industry. <i>That Crazy Perfect Someday</i> is his first novel.</p></div> Read Less