"In San Franciscos Bayview-Hunters Point, a thriving local cannabis entrepreneur befriends the inventor of the Hempattery, leading her to quit her corporate job to embark on a series of biotechnological experiments. Meanwhile local biohackers have stolen a back-burnered concept from a local biotech corporation and bioengineered a new malleable fungus that takes on properties no one expected. The Robertson family, a sprawling black San Francisco clan, finds itself at the heart of this swirling urban saga. From the 101-year-old matriarch through her youngest son Frank, a UCSF cop, to the urban farming granddaughter Janet, sons and daughters move through this strangely familiar San Francisco. After a Supreme Court-endorsed reversal of the popular vote in Arizona and Wisconsin leads to a new Republican government in 2024, protests erupt, and a National Emergency is declared. When security forces open fire at a Dolores Park protest, resistance blooms and surprising new agents of history appear, from urban peasants, activist plumbers, and mountain squatters, to underground scientists, disaffected security personnel, and rebellious tech workers"--.