Dean Bakopoulos

• Jan-2006
• / General Fiction
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The summer Michael Smolij turns sixteen, his father disappears. One by one other men also vanish from the blue-collar neighborhood outside Detroit where their fathers before them had lived, raised families, and, in a more promising era, worked. One m...

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction
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“Why are you so unhappy?” That’s the question that Zeke Pappas, a thirty-three-year-old scholar, asks almost everybody he meets as part of an obsessive project, “The Inventory of American Unhappiness.” The answers he receives -- a mix of tr...

• Jun-2015
• / Literary
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The author of "Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon" and "My American Unhappiness" delivers his breakout novel: a deft and hilarious exploration of the simmering tensions beneath the surface of a contented marriage which explode in the bedrooms and...