Michael Piafsky reads from and talks about all the happiness you deserve

Abstract

The month of June is First Books Month at The Missouri Review Soundbooth. This month, we'll bring you readings and interviews with four writers who have recently published their first full-length books. We kick off the series with fiction writer Michael Piafksy, whose novel, All the happiness you deserve, was published in February by Prospect Park Books. All the happiness you deserve follows its Midwestern protagonist from childhood to old age as he examines the touch points and transitions that define a life. The protagonist's languorous journey takes him through the pivotal experiences common to so many American men: a middle-class childhood, college, marriage, fatherhood, cross-country moves, business success and failure, and aging. Author Michael Piafsky frames his story with Tarot images that provide a subtly cutting commentary on the disconnectedness of society and the perplexing isolation of the human condition.