Jens Möller: Yucca State, Kartoniert / Broschiert

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Yucca State - A Hare Goes South is a wild ride through a Western world that has long stopped taking itself seriously. In Loxlay, Alabama, an orchestrated fog settles over Hemster Street, a fog that swallows not only houses but also property rights, memories, and any sense of logic. Tracks are shifted overnight, ranches appear and vanish without warning, and anyone waking up in the morning may suddenly find themselves standing on someone else's land. Not through violence, but through forms, stamps, and decisions no one remembers making.

At the center stands Miss Lyin MacLoxlay, a woman determined not to lose her mind, despite regularly seeing a blue hare named Pan, who never stops spouting political nonsense. Pan comments on everything, interferes in anything, and seems to know far more about the power structures of Yucca State than any hare reasonably should. Whether he is real or merely a symptom of a bureaucracy creeping into people's thoughts remains uncertain.

Miss Lyin is accompanied by Nixon, a man so strong one might assume he fell into a cauldron of raw muscle power. Nixon prefers to solve problems with his fists, thoroughly and without hesitation. While Miss Lyin tries to uncover the truth behind the shifting borders and disappearing ranches, Nixon ensures that no one stands in their way. Together, they form an unlikely duo navigating fog, paperwork, and a landscape that reinvents itself at every turn.

Yucca State itself feels like a living organism: a system of bureaucracy, arbitrariness, and absurd rules that constantly reshapes itself and owes no one an explanation. Every step south brings new riddles, new encounters, and new absurdities. And again and again, Pan appears, the blue hare whose commentary blurs the line between reality and madness once and for all.

Yucca State - A Hare Goes South is a novel full of humor, satire, and unapologetically physical confrontations. A blend of quirky social critique, dusty Western flair, and exaggerated action, it is a literary road trip through a land where nothing stays as it was and where even a hare seems to understand more than the authorities.