My american unhappiness - dean bakopoulos

Bakopoulos has invented a man for all rainy seasons--a horny, heartbroken cousin of Richard Fords Frank Bascombe.

--Tom Piazza A winning distraction, a smart entertainment.

-- New York Times Book Review A clairvoyant when it comes to the Starbucks orders, a renegade when it comes to bureaucracy, Zeke asks almost everybody he meets, Why are you so unhappy? The answers he receives--a mix of true sadness and absurd complaint--become the core of an obsessive project, The Inventory of American Unhappiness, a project that becomes all the more personally meaningful as he follows steps outlined in a womens magazine on finding the perfect mate.

Incisively tapping the voice of one of the most charming--and deluded--narrators to come along in years, Dean Bakopolous captures our zeitgeist with lacerating wit and a big heart, confirming Jonathan Miless (author of Dear American Airlines ) claim that theres no such thing as unhappiness when youre holding a Dean Bakopolous novel.

Hilarious and heartfelt .

This funny-sad novel seems to take elements of the authors own life .

and twists them in a funhouse mirror--with delightful results.

--NPR.