About the Book
Not every awakening brings clarity. Some bring control.
Chaotic Awakening is a satirical, allegorical novel about a community that decides comfort matters more than truth—and calls the result progress.
When Jimmy Goodright awakens from a coma, he returns to a town that feels carefully rearranged. Traditions have been rewritten. Memory has been softened. And faith—once central—has been repackaged into something safer and more manageable. Nothing appears openly broken. Everything feels… guided.
As Jimmy looks closer, confusion gives way to unease. Centerville begins to resemble something much larger: a culture persuading itself that stability is virtue, conformity is kindness, and questions are a problem best corrected quietly.
No one in Centerville is forced to comply. No one is punished. No one is told they’re wrong. They’re simply reminded—again and again—what’s acceptable now.
Chaotic Awakening isn’t interested in offering answers. It invites readers to pause, reflect, and notice what feels familiar. Part satire, part mirror, it explores the cost of engineered order—and asks whether the greatest danger isn’t chaos at all, but the kind of peace that asks us to forget who we are.