Zachary German's debut novel 'Eat When You Feel Sad' is published on the 9th February [Melville House]. I'm really looking forward to this one - I'm especially interested how this novel will be received in the UK. Nobody, and I mean nobody, writes like Zachary German in the UK. His voice is both original and familiar. It is both funny and sad . . . and completely modern.
"Eat When You Feel Sad is a novel about Robert. Eat When You Feel Sad is a novel about a generation. Robert was born in the 1980s. He was born in the United States of America. In Eat When You Feel Sad, Robert feeds his cat, watches television and drinks beer. In Eat When You Feel Sad, Robert gets mustard on his clothes, rides a bicycle and talks on Gmail chat. Eat When You Feel Sad takes place in cars, houses, and apartments. Eat When You Feel Sad takes place in a school, a community center, and several Chinese restaurants. Eat When You Feel Sad is a selection of scenes from a life.
Eat When You Feel Sad will be found on a short shelf of short literary novels that includes Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero and Tao Lin's Eeeee Eee Eeee--where young people seek their own reflection, and face reality with humor and hope."
From 'SOMETHING BAD HAPPENED TODAY':
"i got on the L train at 8th avenue
i noticed that a black woman didn't get off the 8th avenue bound L train
she stayed on it as it became a brooklyn bound L train
i saw her sitting across from me
later i didn't see her
later she was sitting next to me
she said 'can i ask you a question'"
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