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American Spirit by Dan kennedy

"Matthew’s stoned, stream-of-consciousness ramblings are laugh-out-loud funny, yet interspersed with passages of startling and poignant beauty. Highly recommended, especially for fans of other sharp, iconoclastic authors like Jay McInerney, Douglas Coupland, and Eric Bogosian."—Library Journal

"Dan Kennedy not only manages to craft bitter, effective comedy out of life’s darker corners—egregious substance abuse, financial collapse, depression and death but he makes it look easy."—Washington Independent Review of Books

"Kennedy (Rock On), host of The Moth storytelling series, has far surpassed the creation of character and conjured an entity so alive in its knowledge of impending death that we're captured in a new idea of what it's like to live."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"Dan Kennedy's debut novel American Spirit impresses with dark humor and the immersive world of its struggling middle-aged protagonist." —Largehearted Boy