Bakopoulos has invented a man for all rainy seasons--a horny, heartbroken cousin of Richard Ford\'s Frank Bascombe. --NPR. and twists them in a funhouse mirror--with delightful results. . .
This funny-sad novel seems to take elements of the author\'s own life . . .
Hilarious and heartfelt .
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 Miles\'s (author of Dear American Airlines ) claim that there\'s no such thing as Unhappiness when you\'re holding a Dean Bakopolous novel. -- 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 women\'s magazine on finding the perfect mate. --Tom Piazza A winning distraction, a smart entertainment.
Bakopoulos has invented a man for all rainy seasons--a horny, heartbroken cousin of Richard Ford\'s Frank Bascombe
