Hey!

I'm just working on descriptions for my novel today. Trying to get that catch. I just don't know yet. And what about a title?

Edgy yet finessed, this first-person account of job loss, alcoholism, and the rediscovery of youth is a thoughtful and engaging read. Dan Lawrence's debut novel, TWO SHOTS OF SCOTCH, provides a distinct voice for the generation of lost 20-somethings of our time while earnestly addressing the fear of aging, sentimentalism, and lost love. It's set in the Midwest as a sort of travel narrative.  

When a 25 year-old advertising manager loses his job at a small Midwest newspaper, he takes a look back into his past to try to understand the steps which lead him to where he is now: “Five years ago, I couldn’t even have told you what an advertising manager does.” Taking inspiration from a stack of journals he finds in his moving boxes, he sets out across the country to find this lost love, his grandfather’s hat, and a piece of himself that’s been missing since he left Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
 
TWO SHOTS OF SCOTCHis a new-age novel about the perils and luxuries of working in today’s world: self-indulgence and freedom, technology and nature, money and autonomy. The narrator is an anxiety-ridden ex-alcoholic and a man with burnt out dreams who can neither reify his youth nor accept his manhood. He is the new middle-class man. He is jobless, creative, and confused. Yet, with his sometimes comedic and sometimes painful introspection, and the guiding voice of his adventurous younger self channeled through the dusty notebooks he discovers, he hops in his half-rusted Subaru Legacy an heads West to set everything right.

Enjoy, please.

I'm really looking for feedback, to reach the audience that wants this. I know there's a market for literary fiction about life, loss, a bit of dark humor, micro-brewed beers in the Midwest and Ursa Major in the backyard. It's about stars and warmth and the 16-bit anthems of our youth. Right?