A VIRAL SENSATION
A young woman's fears that her planet is doomed make her an overnight celebrity... with a few regrets.
Heiress to an energy fortune built off fossil fuels
, recent college graduate Missy Mayburn Crowe is stricken with overwhelming anxiety over what she fears is a looming "climate apocalypse" and her family's role in it. She develops an involuntary twitch, a conversion disorder that quickly spreads to her impressionable young friends who have been bombarded their entire lives with questionable predictions of climate doom.
Missy is diagnosed by a famed TV shrink as suffering from acute climatosis.
Exposure on television and in social media quickly propels her affliction into a worldwide social contagion and Missy into a celebrity ripe for exploitation by politicians, media, and business opportunists eager to leverage her torment for their own objectives. A cure may require a deeper understanding of whether her worries are justified or not.
Told with humor, insight, and brisk pacing
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Missy's Twitch
offers an entertaining twist on conventional wisdom about one of the most controversial issues of our time.