Being Real

Description

In this near, could-have-happened future tale, teenage Lys finds out that her family has been selected for a reality show. The megabucks are conditional upon the family being interesting enough to catch the interest of fellow Americans. Lys and her drummer brother and overworked elder sister go to great lengths to "be real" . . . In this short, satiric novella, Sherwood Smith has fun with inward and outward expectations: personal, familial, social, and governmental