Tristan 4 America
Coming in 2026 from Willow River Press
Tristan 4 America is Aaron Sorkin with the gloves off, an unapologetically woke manifesto wrapped in a probing but no less lit-up and often hilarious tale of political intrigue.
Tristan Heller is a man preoccupied by America’s fraught political moment and hyped for the most American of reasons to do something about it. Stripped during the covid pandemic of the sales executive job that had given his life meaning, he reassembles his crew of Silicon Valley refugees and plunges into the U.S. presidential campaign as a candidate with zero chance of winning, but one hell of a lot to say. And as he starts opening eyes with his diatribes, an underworld cast of well-armed haters and homies rises up to savage effect.
What Readers Are Saying…
In brisk scenes and smart but conversational prose, the novel teases out dark questions about power in a too-online America.
— Publishers Weekly
Tristan 4 America knows what it is doing. It stays lean, stays alert, and keeps the election heat on the page without losing the plot to its own noise.
— Jack Davis, LA Book Review
Tristan 4 America feels current without feeling disposable. It knows the season it came from, but it is really after the parts of ambition that never go out of style.
— Leah Tran, San Francisco Book Review
Tristan 4 America, is a wild, twisty ride that kept me engaged from start to finish and even had me wishing the book’s protagonist was on my ballot!
— Clifford Garstang, author of Oliver’s Travels and The Last Bird of Paradise
Overby’s riveting rollick careens from humor to tragedy and from cynicism to idealism as his savvy tech bro struggles to reconcile the American dream with our wrenching political time.
— Charles Robbins, Author of The Accomplice and co-author, with former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, of The U.S. Senate
Squarely confronting the hot-button issues that shape our nation, Overby lays down a thought-provoking playbook for an improved, more humane America.
— Dean Monti, author of The Monosexual and The Sweep of the Second Hand