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.

His journey stretches from Miami to Nashville, New York to Las Vegas, Santa Fe to the California coast. But the real distance he's covering is the one between who he is and who he might become. Along the way he meets drifters, gamblers, romantics, fugitives — people quietly trying to become someone else, too.

Based on true events, American Bad Dream isn't a novel about America.

It's a novel about what America reveals.

If you already know what the real America is, feel free to skip ahead.