Dean Bakopoulos
Dean Bakopoulos is the author of PLEASE DON'T COME BACK FROM THE MOON and MY AMERICAN UNHAPPINESS, both published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Dean Bakopoulos is the author of PLEASE DON'T COME BACK FROM THE MOON and MY AMERICAN UNHAPPINESS, both published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Birth date: July 06, 1975
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Summerlong by Dean BakopoulosThis book starts out with a married couple, two kids and they are nearing 40 and some changes are coming to each of them.One night he gets up and walks out to find a woman lying in the grass and ends up waking up next to her in the morning. She has taken a run she knows ...
I was first drawn to Dean Bakopoulos’ second novel because of the title My American Unhappiness. This phrase sums up a lot of what I spend my time thinking about – how convenience, consumption, expansion, and similar American values deemed good by the population actually wreck havoc on our happiness...
Yes, this is actually a laugh-out loud book about unhappiness. Zeke's funding for his Inventory of American Unhappiness Project is running out. In the meantime, while gauging the unhappiness of everyone around him, he ignores his own well-being. Zeke is a likable narrator that just needs a good waki...
Zeke Pappas, is the engaging - and unreliable - chronicler of American unhappiness in this absurd, sad and funny second novel by Dean Bakapoulos. He begins to unravel personally and professionally as he embarks on a search for a wife in this disturbing view of America during George W Bush's reign of...
"We see ourselves in a struggle of epic, or at least interesting, magnitude, and so we go about documenting it ourselves, not waiting for some future historian, anthropologist, or novelist to find our tale and tell it to us. YouTube, FaceBook, blogs - all of these things are ways for us to make ours...