Andrew Sean Greer ist der Gewinner des 2018er Pulitzerpreises für Fiction. Eine Geschichte über einen nicht ganz erfolgreichen Schriftsteller, der in San Francisco sein Schwulsein auskostet und mit seinen Phobien kämpft. Eine kuriose Selbstfindungs- und Selbstzweifel-Geschichte. Beschrieben werden einige lustige Situationen auf seiner gesponserten Reise um die Welt. Leseprobe: She says: „well, I hope you‘re making good use of youth.“ Less, cross-legged on his towel and pink as a shrimp: “I don’t know.” She nods. “You should waste it.” “What’s that?” “You should be at the beach, like today. You should get stoned and drunk and have loads of sex.” She takes another drag off her cigarette. “I think the saddest thing in the world is a twenty-five-year-old talking about the stock market. Or taxes. Or real estate, goddamn it! That’s all you’ll talk about when you’re forty. Real estate! Any twenty-five-year-old who says the word ‘refinance’ should be taken out and shot. Talk about love and music and poetry.”