描述
A clairvoyant when it comes to the Starbucks orders of
strangers, 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 women’s magazine on
finding the perfect mate. Incisively tapping the voice of one of
the most charming, and deluded, narrators to come along in years,
Bakopoulos captures our zeitgeist with lacerating wit and a big
heart–confirming Jonathan Miles’s (author of “Dear American
Airlines”) claim that “there’s no such thing as unhappiness when
you’re holding a Dean Bakopoulos novel.”
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