What if you’re following a path you never chose?

Daniel Brant buys a one-way ticket to the United States with no plan, no contacts, and barely enough money to last a week. What follows is stranger than ambition, funnier than it ought to be, and far more difficult to explain.

From Miami to Nashville, New York to Las Vegas, Santa Fe to the California coast. The real distance is the one between who Daniel is and who he might become. Along the way he meets drifters, gamblers, romantics, fugitives — people quietly trying to become someone else, too.

Some stay for years.

Some disappear overnight.

All of them change him.

Inspired by true events, American Bad Dream isn’t a novel about America.

It’s a novel about what America reveals.