California Shock, a Novel

His mother is a Filipino mail-order bride; his father is a hippy nobody; and his sister is a beautiful lost soul. For Cali, a struggling musician living in Echo Park, Los Angeles, that is reason enough to never visit his family. But after sexting with a woman who loves his music, he decides to meet her at a hotel room five hours north, back in his hometown of Stockton, California--a place Forbes magazine called, "The Most Miserable City in America."