by Kevin Bartelme

Fukushima and it’s effect on the US. A comic drama Ain’t Life Swell is a contemporary family saga that hop-scotches all over the world, stopping on every continent but Australia and the South Pole [and those aren’t really continents anyway.] Three generations of the Howell family, originally from California, manage to get in trouble with everyone from the CIA to the Mexican mob to Big Nuclear in a wild, farcical romp through the time zones, inviting us to reflect on the mess the human species has got itself into. Is there any escape from this seemingly inevitable impending train wreck? This timely tome tries to ignore the question and will make great, light summer beach reading foranyone with their…is a contemporary family saga that hop-scotches all over the world, stopping on every continent but Australia and the South Pole [and those aren’t really continents anyway.] Three generations of the Howell family, originally from California, manage to get in trouble with everyone from the CIA to the Mexican mob to Big Nuclear in a wild, farcical romp through the time zones, inviting us to reflect on the mess the human species has got itself into. Is there any escape from this seemingly inevitable impending train wreck? This timely tome tries to ignore the question and will make great, light summer beach reading foranyone with their head in the sand. head in the sand.