Mark Doyon: ‘Deep Fried’
“A quirky, thoughtful meditation on creativity, purpose, and the American dream, this savory slice of contemporary American life will edify readers who have ever dared to follow their dreams or wondered, ‘Why am I here?’ [Editor’s Pick]” —BookLife Reviews
If you like food trucks, gourmet cooking, or Asian-fusion cuisine, or get into stories about creative freedom and chasing dreams — or just, you know, really dig deep-fried treats — then Deep Fried, the seriocomic new novel from Mark Doyon, is the read you need. You’ll laugh a lot, probably, and cry a tad, possibly.
Deep Fried tells the story of Americanized millennial Arjun Chatterjee, a food-truck chef working in a parking lot outside the nation’s capital. He dreams up multiethnic recipes and pursues a young woman toiling in a Kafkaesque office nearby. Building a clientele, he faces life with a sly optimism.
One day he idly asks the sky: “Why am I here?”
Deep Fried is a tragicomic love story wrapped in creative freedom. Its chefs, musicians, and entrepreneurs face a world of oversized dreams and shaky prospects.
They try, fail, and fail better. Will it be enough?
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Read: ‘Like a Radio’: 5 Questions about Big Dreams with Mark Doyon
About Mark DoyonI run Wampus, a creative development agency and label for emerging artists and authors. I make records as Arms of Kismet (and sometimes Waterslide), and wrote the book 'Bonneville Stories.'
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