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A Möbius Strip:
One Year Around the Sound

Oscar is a twenty-something dishwasher in Coupeville, Washington until Möbius the Magician and the Cyclone Cycle Sideshow get to town during a spring festival. Driven by his attraction to Rachel Rush, the sideshow’s fortuneteller, Oscar hits the road with the troupe, joining them as puppeteer on their ten-week bicycle tour of the Puget Sound region.
Seattle, Bainbridge Island, Port Townsend and Port Angeles, Victoria B.C., The San Juan Islands, Bellingham, Anacortes—none are spared in the Sideshow’s romp around northwest Washington State.
Beginning in the spring of 1999, the novel traces one year in Oscar’s life, a year in which the WTO protests in Seattle, the turn of the Millennium, and the Kingdome implosion all make guest appearances as the book takes a critical look at American culture at a turning point. All the frenzy of life on the edge is thrown into quiet contrast by idyllic months in the San Juan Islands where Oscar ends up after the tour.
Full of colorful characters like Sancho the Jumping Bean and Gravity the Dwarf, the book is many things: a Puget Sound bicycle travelogue, a love story, a tragedy, nature writing, cultural commentary, and green fiction. All the hype surrounding the impending new millennium backdrops Oscar’s emotional coming of age, while providing a vehicle for mad Möbius’ philosophies on the future, technology, gravity, fate, aliens, mutation, myth, religion, apocalypse, time, love, truth, art, dreams, drugs, limbo, the universe, and magic.

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Contact Carlos at sanchothebean@hotmail.com