'Families, heartbreak, political and social comedy - there is little that Dean Bakopoulos doesn't grasp in an articulate, wittily perceptive, and soulful way, before he hands it back to the reader as literary art. < ...
Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America
'Please Don't Come Back from the Moon is a pitch-perfect debut by a fine young novelist. Dean Bakopoulos makes his indelible mark on the coming-of-age novel'
Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
'Deftly welding magic realism with social satire, Bakopoulos captures the dark side of the working-class dream'
New York Times
'Families, heartbreak, political and social comedy - there is little that Dean Bakopoulos doesn't grasp in an articulate, wittily perceptive, and soulful way, before he hands it back to the reader as literary art. < ...
Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America
'Please Don't Come Back from the Moon is a pitch-perfect debut by a fine young novelist. Dean Bakopoulos makes his indelible mark on the coming-of-age novel'
Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
'Deftly welding magic realism with social satire, Bakopoulos captures the dark side of the working-class dream'
New York Times
'Families, heartbreak, political and social comedy - there is little that Dean Bakopoulos doesn't grasp in an articulate, wittily perceptive, and soulful way, before he hands it back to the reader as literary art. < ...
Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America
'Please Don't Come Back from the Moon is a pitch-perfect debut by a fine young novelist. Dean Bakopoulos makes his indelible mark on the coming-of-age novel'
Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
'Deftly welding magic realism with social satire, Bakopoulos captures the dark side of the working-class dream'