Summerlong

Dean Bakopoulos is a great talent-everything he writes is full of insight and inspiration and the best kind of divine comedy. - Lorrie Moore

There is no better guide through a hot summer in the heartland than Dean Bakopoulos. It turns out there also may be no better place than Iowa for passion and insanity and mournfulness and a leveling sanity, too, to disturb the peace. Lovers chasing all over the joint, the glorious wreckage, and Bakopoulos with his keen eye, his sympathy and his wit, there to see all. - Jane Hamilton, bestselling author of A Map of the World

Dean Bakopoulos has written the funniest, saddest, sultriest, most profound account of love gone wrong and right you’ll encounter this year. Summerlong is the novel everyone will be reading all summer long, the beach read you’ve been waiting for-one that sweeps you away with its story while impressing you with its insightful intelligence and stylistic elegance. - Benjamin Percy, author of The Dead Lands, Red Moon and The Wilding

Summerlong is Dean Bakopoulos at his finest: daringly funny, heartbreakingly sad, and forever on the watch for redemption. This is a book for any season, any reader, anywhere-it shimmers with magic, lust, and love. - Nickolas Butler, author of Shotgun Lovesongs

Tennessee Williams has nothing on Bakopoulos when it comes to marital and moral dissipation fuelled by the summer’s rising temperatures. Yet into this emotional abyss Bakopoulos injects a high degree of coy humour and wry self-deprecation to deliver a heartbreaking and wise novel of false starts and new beginnings. A sure hit with fans of the three Jonathans: Dee, Franzen, and Tropper. - Starred Booklist review

This is that rare, contemporary suburban novel with characters the reader can actually embrace in spite of their many flaws. - Publishers Weekly

Provocative, sultry… the novel stays light on its feet; its breezy chapters are laced with sex and humor… between the louche vibe and matriarchal presence, the novel often feels like Armistead Maupin’s San Francisco teleported to the Midwest - Kirkus