“Summerlong is the Great White Midlife Crisis novel that Jonathan Franzen has tried to write (and failed) and Jonathan Lethem has tried to write (and failed) and Michael Chabon (wisely) half-avoided ever trying to write. But Dean Bakopoulos pulls it off.”—NPR.org“Dean Bakopoulos is a great talent—everything he writes is full of insight and inspiration and the best kind of divine comedy.”–Lorrie Moore“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