Hopes and Dreams Stuck on AutoDrive

The self-driving car will happen; it's just a matter of time. Hopes and Dreams: Stuck on AutoDrive is a novel about the inventor of AutoDrive, the self-driving car. He works for Flight Control, a Minnesota company that's five years into producing it. It has a year left. It's not going to get it. The inventor is fired, because he can't deliver the car in time. Convoluted dreams of possible futures don't help. The elephants, running the bowling alley in the apartment upstairs, are no help. Whoever set him up with the girl of his dreams isn't admitting it. He wants to live happily-ever-after with her, but he doesn't know how to do that. As an inventor, he takes happily-ever-after and breaks it down into manageable steps. Manageable steps are great, but manageable steps aren't going to keep him out of trouble. If you are looking the next great big American novel, set in our heartland, full of creativity and next year's inventions, with Trouble peering its head around the corner and slobbering at the possibilities, you have found it -- Hopes and Dreams: Stuck on AutoDrive. It has adventure, comedy, creativity, humor, metaphysics, music, and weird stuff. This is a positive story packed with weeks of entertainment. Tom Sawyer meets Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in Hopes and Dreams. It's a fun ride.