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 USS Hillary Rodham
Clinton, 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, That Crazy Perfect Someday 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.
Michael Mazza is a San Francisco-area fiction writer whose stories
have appeared in Other Voices, WORDS, Blue Mesa Review, TINGE, and
ZYZZYVA. He is also an internationally acclaimed art and creative
director working in the advertising industry. That Crazy Perfect
Someday is his first novel.
