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
發表於2024-08-28
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